Sorry, but this just isn’t true. Coyotes are somewhat of a newcomer to Massachusetts and the Northeast as a whole. They started being documented here in the mid 1900s. You could certainly argue that the actions of people since colonization caused the reduction of other apex predators which ultimately allowed coyotes to fill the gap, but to think that human “encroachment” is “pushing them out” is simply incorrect. They are highly opportunistic and have expanded their population largely due to human influence like the availability of food sources we unintentionally provide them.