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Today the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is reopening a portion of its Desert Loop Trail, which had been closed since a wild javelina breached the museum's grounds and bit a visitor on June 28.

About 20 percent of the half-mile trail is being reopened so visitors can access the coyote area, said Craig Ivanyi, the museum's associate executive director. The rest of the trail, which accesses the javelina area, will remain closed, possibly for months.

"We're trying to develop some different gate systems," Ivanyi said.

Museum officials are studying deer grates, similar in principle to cattle guards, which don't work for javelina. Design and contracting work could take up to several months, Ivanyi said.

The wild javelina that bit the 45-year-old Dutch tourist late last month somehow entered the museum grounds through the main gate, since no holes were found in the museum's 8-foot perimeter fence, Ivanyi said. The attack caused the extremely rare closure of the entire museum for the rest of that day and the next.

The javelina has not been found, nor have Desert Museum employees or visitors spotted another wild javelina on the grounds since the attack, Ivanyi said.

"We've had traps up ever since that day and we've caught one raccoon, but not any javelina," he said.

Still, the closure remains in effect as museum officials take a cautious approach and work toward improving the gates.

"From talking to Arizona Game and Fish, we know that our herd most likely can be smelled from quite a distance, which probably attracts javelina, and when they've shown up they have gone pretty much straight down to where our javelina are," Ivanyi said.

Ivanyi said the museum is also using the shutdown to improve the trail, which is among its longer ones and has little in the way of amenities.

"We're using this opportunity to look at our Desert Loop Trail and how we can make it a better experience in the summer," he said.

Ivanyi said it's impossible to know whether the trail closure impacted visitor numbers.

"It's always hard to tell from one year to the next, and with all the stuff going on with gas prices, why visitorship goes up or down is anybody's guess," he said. "We haven't seen any cause and effect from that."