Painted Coyote Trucker Hat — Liberty Canyon, California

A freeway has cut through the Santa Monica Mountains for sixty years, and for most of that time it has worked as a wall. Coyotes, bobcats, deer and mountain lions on one side, the rest of their range on the other. A 200-foot planted bridge has been going up over the ten lanes at Liberty Canyon to put the two halves back together.

It does not open until December. But a camera on the span caught something just after six in the morning: a coyote walking up onto the bridge on its own, the first large animal recorded using it. Nothing about the picture is dramatic — a grey shape on a dark slope, one eye lit. It is simply an animal taking a route that did not exist before.

Product details

• Full color, straight onto the cap front — no patch, no border, no stitched edge. The coyote is a naturalistic painting: greys, warm tans and rust through the fur, an amber eye, brushwork visible across the shoulder and ruff.
• Printed large, roughly 3.75 to 4 inches across the front panel.
• No lettering.
• Richardson 112 structured trucker cap, mesh back, adjustable snapback.
• Five Richardson colorways plus an Infinity Charlie ponytail cap in Dusty Rose/White.
• Made in Avon Lake, Ohio, just west of Cleveland. No minimum, even just 1.