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Arizona Game and Fish

  • Mexican wolf population finally begins to grow again

    Ralph Maughan

    Total jumps to 58- After years of slow decline from a not very high level, finally in 2011 there was some good news for the beleaguered Mexican wolf restoration in Arizona/New Mexico. There appears to have been a 16% increase from 50 to 58 wolves in the wild. There are 12 packs and 6 breeding…

  • Permit for jaguar's capture questioned

    Ken Cole

    Documents and e-mails suggest state may have lacked authority to take cat Could the capture and subsequent death of the only wild jaguar in the U.S. by Arizona Game and Fish have been illegal? Permit for jaguar’s capture questioned ARIZONA DAILY STAR

  • They had to kill the jaguar to save the jaguar

    Ralph Maughan

    USFWS and Arizona Game and Fish in a sloppy screw-up? An interesting article today in Demarcated Landscapes. Update. Jaguar may have experienced ‘capture myopathy’. Necropsy by zoo inconclusive, two outside vets say. By Tim Steller. Arizona Daily Star Update 4/2. I baited jaguar trap, research worker says. Attorney general opens investigation into capture. Biologist denies…

  • Arizona Game and Fish: confusing and error-filled statements about bighorn and desert cougars at Kofa National Wildlife Refuge

    Ralph Maughan

    If you are not familiar with Kofa, it is huge, almost 700,000 acres. However, the bighorn have been struggling there, but their numbers are now increasing, a fact the AZ F & G ignored as they announced, but may not honor, a one-year moratorium on removal of desert cougars in the area (perhaps 3 are…

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