I grew up within a half hour drive of the West Point Military Academy in Rockland, County, New York.....The surrounding region of Northern New Jersey, Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southeastern New York comprise the geographic region known as the Hudson Highlands(so named because the early Colonists of the region felt it so resembled the topography of the Scottish Highlands in Europe)..........The Highlands is a scant 30 to 50 miles(depending on location) North and West of New York City and is one of the most densely human settled regions in the USA................Despite this, The Highlands is home to a rich diversity of larger animals including Black Bears, Coyotes, Red and Gray Foxes, Fishers, White tail deer, Bobcats and Wild Turkeys.............Teatown Lake Reservation, located in the Northeastern quadrant of Westchester County, Ossining, NY(adjacent to New York City) was the site of a 2006-07 Coyote study conducted on the 742 acre Teatown Lake Reservation(natural preserve)...............Biologist Fred Koontz's camera trap study revealed Coyotes strongly attracted to and utilizing meadow and hardwood swamp habitat,,,,,,,,,,,, largely ignoring rocky slopes and lake and pond topography...............Estimates of 1.5 coyotes per square mile( more dense than the 0.5 to 1.0 per square mile densities reported across other regions of New York State) were the conclusions reached from this study along with the fact that Coyotes tried to operate in regions that saw least human foot traffic.........As the famous "New York/New York" Frank Sinatra song so emphatically states: "if you can make it here(NY), you can make it anywhere":...............And the Coyote has proven across the lower 48 States that he indeed can MAKE IT ANYWHERE!

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