Bay Area hikers are skipping crowds for this elk haven

Coyote Valley, the narrowest stretch between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Diablo Range, hosts thousands of acres of farms, orchards and ranches. It’s also one of the few places to see a federally threatened species: Tule elk.

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Palo Alto group buys Coyote Valley farmland in San Jose for $5.3 million

In the latest step to preserve agriculture and open space in Coyote Valley, the largely undeveloped area on San Jose’s southern edges that was once planned for large technology campuses, a non-profit environmental group has purchased a 71-acre farm to keep it rural for generations to come. The Open Space Authority will manage the property.

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Electricity project aims to improve reliability, protect wildlife in South County

A state commission has voted to allow a major transmission project to share space at a substation near Morgan Hill rather than build on undeveloped land in Coyote Valley—a change officials say protects a critical wildlife corridor while adding enough power capacity to supply more than 600,000 homes across the South Bay.

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New South Bay power substation to be built at existing site

Environmental advocates are claiming victory in a two-year fight to keep an energy substation away from wildlife corridors in the stretches of open space south of San Jose known as Coyote Valley.

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