Bakersfield, CA Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

050 lists acts prohibited within the limits of any Bakersfield city park, enforceable against anyone other than an authorized city employee performing park duties. Subsection H specifically bars any person from "purposely or knowingly, in any manner" providing access to food, feed or bait to a wild animal, and names coyotes, deer, squirrels, feral cats, foxes, raccoons, skunks, waterfowl, birds and beavers as covered species. 050(B)), reinforcing a hands-off approach to wildlife management rather than active culling. 045, and city recreation and parks staff enforce the chapter.

40. The city's approach to coyotes and deer inside parks is therefore a feeding prohibition paired with a general anti-molestation rule, not a permitted cull or trapping program: the code contains no provision authorizing residents or private parties to trap, remove or kill wildlife in a city park, and the feeding ban is framed as a public-safety measure to keep wild animals from habituating to humans in park settings.