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Posted in Arizona, Control, Monitoring on Sep 5th, 2009
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LiveWire/62027
The Arizona Game and Fish Department killed another mountain lion Tuesday in southern Arizona — “lethally removed” is the official term used by the agency — after the cat killed as many as 15 bighorn sheep in a period of about seven months.
State officials say if they’d left the lion to roam the area [...]
Posted in Arizona, Control, Monitoring on Sep 4th, 2009
http://www.examiner.com/x-8088-National-Hunting-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Kofa-Range-Mountain-Lion-removed-after-killing-15-Bighorn-Sheep
The Arizona Game and Fish Department on Tuesday afternoon lethally removed a Mountain Lion known to be preying heavily on bighorn sheep in the Kofa Mountains Complex Predation Management Area in southwestern Arizona.
The lion was taken in the Eagletail Mountains located about 90 miles northeast of Yuma.
The action was taken in a continuing effort [...]
Posted in Arizona, Control, Monitoring on Aug 21st, 2009
http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/email.php/8897663
It is simple concept: A wildlife refuge should include predators and prey.
But in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, mountain lions are killing too many desert-bighorn sheep.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the refuge, says limiting mountain-lion predation “could benefit” Kofa’s bighorn sheep. The agency’s draft environmental assessment recommends removing some lions. But [...]
Posted in Arizona, Co-existence, Monitoring, Radio Collar Tracking on Jul 7th, 2009
http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=70079
The Daily Courier – Prescott, Arizona
Prescott’s lion finally loses to urban perils
Monday, July 06, 2009
By Joanna Dodder Nellans, The Daily Courier
PRESCOTT – A radio-collared mountain lion that was remarkably adept at living in west Prescott finally ran out of luck this past week, apparently a victim of a vehicle collision in Prescott.
The female lion had [...]
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/286773.php
Judge orders fed to prepare recovery plan for endangered jaguar
By Tony Davis
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.31.2009
A federal judge overruled an agency’s decision today that had stopped preparation of a recovery plan and designation of prime protected habitat for the endangered jaguar in the Southwest.
District Judge John Roll’s ruling essentially said that the [...]
Arizona Daily Star, March 29, 2009
Did jaguar Macho B have to die?
Phoenix Zoo may have moved too fast to euthanize him, UA pathologist says
By Tony Davis
Macho B may not have had chronic kidney failure after all.
Tissue samples from the last known wild jaguar in the United States showed no sign of kidney disease, the diagnosis [...]
Posted in Arizona on Mar 4th, 2009
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/fromcomments/282467.php
Arizona Daily Star
Jaguar caught near Tucson euthanized
Staff and Wire Report
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.02.2009
A jaguar collared near Tucson last month was recaptured today and sent to the Phoenix zoo for medical treatment, officials said. It was put down late today, officials say.
Wildlife officials said in a news release earlier today that the health of the [...]