i breezed through jonathan franzen's essays and learned i don't much like his writing. i wanted to get to the way of coyote. i'm getting to it. i don't know if i can do a capsule review. i tend to forget things as i read. i didn't tell the u.c.press that of course, and i will review this book. i'll give my impressions.
all books by people who long to see coyote in the city are welcome. i learned about habitat analogues, human built environments and structures that lend themselves to animal habitat in the absence of natural habitat. i've been feeling something disquieting about coyote- it's  the way of humans- i see them less, as i see humans more, it's partly because they are quietly adapting. wariness of humans is adaptive, even for me. the wiliest survive. apparently there is still some eradication, some poisoning, some euthanasia, going on, as well as some radio collaring and studying. it must be such a strange world to adapt to. nothing like nature intended. well i feel the same way, this place is man made, made for man and automan. we are lucky that the noise and pollution of bygone industry caused people to value green space and create parks (which people like obomba, to whom green space is real estate, want to privatize and "develop"), and we're lucky in a way that industry has moved to other unfortunate countries and left industrial sites that may have been developed into creepy suburbs may now be reverted to natural sites, like big marsh, where the monuments of industry grow graffiti and the patina of time and weather. i think nature has been smart in taking advantage of human inadvertencies and the environmental lacunae of capitalism. they made mieg's field airport into a nature sanctuary as it was intended to be, and perhaps obomba can be stopped from making the paul h. douglas nature sanctuary his private enterprise. everything is determined in a city, with some no-man's lands where animals and displaced humans may dwell. some plans include green space which the intelligent humans have long regarded as human utility, even at the sacrifice of towers and golf links.

in a time of extinction of species, destruction of habitat and expansion of human designs, green spaces in cities are more intrinsically valuable than ever before.