Irecently received the following email from Sandy Greenstein, who gardens in the Linda Vista area of Pasadena: “My brown heavy plastic drip lines routinely get coyote chew breaks. We have at least one regular coyote visitor, and we think it sometimes sleeps in tall thyme on our hill. The coyote used to eat figs from our tree, but it was knocked down with another tree during the winds that came with the January 6-7 fires. Can you suggest something that will prevent our coyote visitor from damaging our drip lines?”

Before we address your problem, I think it would be instructive to understand why there has been an explosion of wildlife in the greater Los Angeles area. It seems that I am visited by a raccoon, a skunk, or an opossum every night. They strip the pluots, peaches, and apricots fro

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