 As the city of San Francisco grapples with what it means to have coyotes as residents, along comes the film, SAN FRANCISCO—STILL WILD AT HEART, a compelling one-hour film and a virtual case study of the coyote's arrival in urban America.
While the film unfolds with the return of coyotes to San Francisco, it pursues the coyote story across a national canvas—to New York City's Central Park, and to Chicago, where more than 2,000 coyotes live today. From scientists we learn how to coexist with them safely, while studies out of San Diego give us new insights into how these resilient creatures impact urban and suburban ecosystems.
Meanwhile, the expansion of coyote populations across the continent also poses challenges and opportunities for rural and agricultural communities. But in rural west Marin County, California, we meet a rancher participating in an innovative pilot predator-control program who is finding some success in a mix of humane, NON-lethal predator-control methods that protect livestock and reduce conflicts with coyotes. His success suggests new possibilities for coyote management in our urban and suburban areas as well.
This lyrical natural history film explores the complexity, conflicts, and richness of the fertile interface between our urbanized human communities and wild nature. Through beautiful, original, and entertaining footage of coyotes and other wild creatures—quail, foxes, raccoons, herons, opossums, and parrots—we learn how animals survive and thrive in the challenging habitat of the modern American city.
SAN FRANCISCO—STILL WILD AT HEART is a tribute to these wild lives, and an unabashed celebration of their unique value and importance to our urban and rural communities.
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