Podcasts: Interviews with Keli about ranching with wildlife.
KELI HENDRICKS
RANCHING WITH WILDLIFE COORDINATOR
Keli attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where she majored in Animal Science and was involved with the horse program. After college, she went on to work for some of the top trainers of cow horses in the country before turning professional herself in the mid 1990’s. Keli trained and showed cutting, reining and cow horses for over 15 years and taught clinics that drew participants from as far away as Africa and Australia.
Keli and her husband Dean live and work on a ranch in Petaluma where Dean has managed the cow/calf operation for over 25 years. The cattle share the land with coyotes, bobcats, and other wildlife. Keli is also a long-time volunteer with Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue, where she works in the hospital and fosters orphaned wildlife.
In 2019, Paula Lane Action Network awarded Keli the Badger Spirit Award. This award “honors individuals, groups and businesses who exemplify the best in community service” and who dedicate themselves to conserving habitat, wildlife and natural resources—making Keli a very fitting recipient!
A lifelong advocate for predators, Keli was often at odds with the lethal management practices she saw being used. She feels that it is time to replace long held fears with newer, better practices regarding our stewardship of the land and its wildlife inhabitants.
She is excited to work with Project Coyote and believes that ranchers and wildlife can learn to share the land without conflict.
► VIDEOS
As part of our Coyote Friendly Communities program, Keli Hendricks gave an online presentation, sponsored by the San Francisco Animal Care and Control and San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department, you still watch it here.
Wildlife appreciation. A rancher’s perspective.
Livestock or wildlife? Making room for both.
Economics. Ethics. Ecology. Bringing them all together.
Non-lethal predator control and the ecology of wool.
Can ranchers and predators coexist? A panel discussion.
A simple way to deter predators.