Biggest reward offered in some time for info on a wolf shooting-
Yet another collared Mexican gray wolf, F521 from the Fox Mountain Pack, found dead in December.
$58,000 Reward Offered in Arizona Wolf Shooting. Arizona Reporter
This reward was first offered in July for the killings of other collared Mexican gray wolves.
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Continue Reading →Great article in Demarcated Landscapes rejects the dominion of ranchers over the rest of us-
“. . . along comes this opinion piece from the Salt Lake City Tribune suggesting that if ranchers can’t make peace with the lobo, then the lobo cannot be recovered.
…in the battle between our deep-seated fears and our […]
Continue Reading →On the “open range” if you don’t want someone else’s cattle on your property, you have to fence them out!
Arizona is rethinking the fairness of this tradition. So are people in other states.
Arizona Rethinking Open Range Laws. By Marc Lacey. New York Times.
If you hit a black cow in the middle […]
Continue Reading →Cumulative impacts of many factors cited
A new report by the Us Fish and Wildlife Service assesses the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program and the news isn’t good.
Cumulatively there are many risks for the population. Among them are poaching, too many controls related to depredation, small litter sizes and low pup survival possibly related […]
Continue Reading →Rare lions are to be killed to protect rare bighorn sheep.
Ron Kearns, a frequent commentator on this site and retired wildlife biologist of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, was recently interviewed for a story about mountain lion management on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona. The refuge has set a policy which requires […]
Continue Reading →Emil McCain pleads guilty to a misdemeanor crime: illegal take of an endangered species-
Jaguar trapper guilty. Arizona Daily Star
Continue Reading →Was Macho B intentionally caught?
The question about whether or not jaguar scat was placed at the trap site or not is the focus of the article. One former employee says she placed the scat at the trap site on the orders of her boss while the employee who was fired recently says she is […]
Continue Reading →The investigation of Macho B’s death is ongoing
I saw this story but was too busy to post it when it was published last month. I’m posting it now because I think it is an important story and also because we’ve been covering the saga of Macho B, the last wild jaguar in the […]
Continue Reading →REINTRODUCTION PLANNED AS EARLY AS THIS MONTH
This story appeared last week while I was gone and there was a little discussion about it on the open thread but I think it deserves its own thread.
The significance of this story is not so much that wolves are being released into the wild but that […]
Continue Reading →Joint news release by the BLM and Western Watersheds Project-
This is a victory for WWPs Arizona Office in Tucson.
NEWS RESEASE
(PHOENIX, AZ)—The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Western Watersheds Projects announced today settlement of a federal lawsuit involving the Sonoran Desert National Monument southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.
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