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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017
Decoys: Plastic coyotes idea came
from former Gov. Kulongoski
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on the golf course. We love the
elk. They’re beautiful. But for
a small town, it seems like an
awful lot of them.”
Sometimes the herd will be
“polite” and gently walk across
the golf course and skip the
greens, Bangild said. “But I
can’t tell you how many times
they’ve completely ruined
greens. Obviously that’s a big
pain in the neck for the main-
tenance crew. And a huge
expense.”
Elk droppings are probably
the easiest of elk-related con-
cerns, Bangild said. Those can
be scooped up.
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Decoys designed to look like coyotes will soon be deployed
around the Gearhart Golf Links to try and deter a herd of
elk that have been passing through the course for years.
change his plantings, erect elk-
proof fencing and spread pred-
ator animal scents like those
being tried at the Gearhart
links. “We’ve tried different
sprays to see if it discourages
the elk,” Brown said. “Noth-
ing’s worked.”
Beware of elk
While attracting sightseers,
Gearhart’s Roosevelt elk —
the largest of America’s larg-
est subspecies — can endanger
people and their pets. What you
don’t know can hurt you.
“The residents are pretty
much savvy to them,” Good-
ling said. “They know to stay
away from them. It’s all the vis-
itors that come and stop. They
love to watch them and gawk
and take pictures. Last year,
when the herd was on the 18th
fairway, people came out of the
hotel to look at the elk. One guy
let his little boy run down to the
elk. I yelled, ‘You’ve got to get
your boy away from there!’
These are wild animals. If
something scares them, they’ll
start stampeding.”
At Gearhart Golf Links,
staff received a hazing permit
from the state Department of
Fish and Wildlife allowing use
of blow horns and water can-
nons — neither of which staff
tried.
“They say you can deter the
elk with paintball guns,” Ban-
gild said. “They get used to that
real quick. They’re such big
animals it doesn’t do anything.”
Another option was fenc-
ing, which would prove costly
and ineffective. “I don’t think
Kulongoski’s concept
Submitted Photo
Notice sent to Gearhart
homeowners this week.
anybody in the town of Gear-
hart wants that — nor do we,”
Bangild said.
More drastic measures like
culling the herd “can become
a huge political nightmare,”
Goodling said.
“We don’t want to eliminate
all the elk, we just want them
controlled,” he said. “Twen-
ty-fi ve, 30 head is fi ne. But
when it’s more than that is
where we really see our dam-
age. The elk fi nd strength in
numbers and they become less
afraid of everything.”
Gearhart Mayor Matt
Brown, the PGA golf pro at the
neighboring Highlands course,
said he’s received suggestions
for keeping his course clear of
the herd. He’s been advised to
The idea for plastic coy-
otes came from former Gov.
Ted Ku longoski in a conversa-
tion with Gearhart Golf Links
owner Tim Boyle, Bangild
said.
“I G oogled ‘fake coyotes,’
and there are lots of them,”
Bangild said.
Four small ones arrived
Wednesday and four larger
ones are scheduled to arrive
today .
Bangild and Goodling plan
to sprinkle the ground around
the decoys with coyote urine. If
that doesn’t work, they’ll up the
dosage with bobcat urine.
The decoys will be placed
around the perimeter and
moved every couple of days,
Bangild said. Depending on
precipitation, the urine will be
replaced as needed.
If the Gearhart Golf Links
coyote decoy plan works,
“Pretty soon everybody will
have a coyote on their lawn,”
Bangild said.
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