Foxes wreaking havoc on Madison golf course become part of relocation study
coyote, david drake, fox, madison golf courses, research, the glen golf park, uw urban canid project, yahara hills
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, 2023-04-24 07:35:00,
Golf courses are pretty accustomed to dealing with wildlife.
There are droppings from geese, deer that feast on flowers and sandhill cranes than can damage the grounds in search of seeds and bugs.
But a rambunctious skulk of four red foxes found a new way to torment greenskeepers by digging holes in putting greens at The Glen Golf Park on Madison’s Near West Side. And now the foxes have found themselves in a six-month research effort by the UW Urban Canid Project that has been studying foxes and coyotes in Madison for nearly 10 years.
The most recent study, which included relocating three of the four foxes and equipping all of them with GPS collars to track their movements, has reduced but not eliminated damage at the nine-hole golf course at the corner of Glenway Street and Speedway Road, and has given researchers an insight on the wandering and sometimes deadly travel habits of urban foxes, whose top predator is motor vehicle traffic.
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This fox, photographed here in September at The Glen Golf Park in Madison, was later captured by UW Urban Canid Project researchers and moved to Yahara Hills Golf Course. The Glen’s greens were rebuilt in 2021 on a base of sand. That attracted the foxes, which like to dig in sand and in the past had primarily dug in the course’s sand traps.
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