The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service recently received a photograph of a jaguar taken by a Fort
Huachuca trail camera in the Huachuca Mountains. Fort Huachuca is a U.S.
Army installation near Sierra Vista in southeastern Arizona.
“Preliminary indications are that the cat is a male jaguar and,
potentially, an individual not previously seen in Arizona,” said Dr.
Benjamin Tuggle, regional director for the Southwest Region of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service. “We are working with the Arizona Game and
Fish Department to determine if this sighting represents a new
individual jaguar.”
“While this is exciting news, we are examining photographic evidence to
determine if we’re seeing a new cat here, or if this is an animal that
has been seen in Arizona before,” said Jim deVos, assistant director of
the department’s Wildlife Management Division. “We look forward to
partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and thoroughly
vetting the evidence.”
AZGFD, USFWS and Fort Huachuca personnel will notify the public when the final determination is made.
Press Release
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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