Coyote on Swaner
April 17, 2008
When I came to Park City, Utah as a prospective home buyer in 2002, I remember looking out from the real estate agent’s car as she explained that the area just southwest of Interstate 80 was a nature preserve. I spotted a coyote loping across the flat expanse, his gray-brown silhoutted against the white snow.
Today, driving the same road in the opposite direction, I saw across the expanse a distant canine figure making its way southward. I saw Sandhill Cranes in a different area of the Swaner Nature Preserve a few days ago. They nest on the ground, braving hungry predators.
I drive to work.
