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Jaguar seen in area of Cochise
A hunter photographed an adult male jaguar in Southeast Arizona after his dogs treed it, Arizona Game and Fish Department officials said Monday.
Fire near Sierra Vista grows to nearly 21,000 acres
Weather permitting Saturday night, crews will be conducting burnout operations in Carr and Ramsey canyons. Crews made progress with operations in Miller Canyon, trying to keep the fire west of Arizona 92. The fire made a run Saturday afternoon toward the highway from the canyon, but crews fo…
June 18, 2011 5:45 pm PhotosPhotos
Fort Huachuca blaze was sparked by bulldozer
The dozer was working to build a fire line, fort's commander says. Water trucks will now be used to spray behind dozers. Meanwhile, the much larger Monument Fire is holding in Miller Canyon, above homes, but winds are a worry. Cost to fight it so far: $4.1 million. Evacuated: 2,900 homes.
June 17, 2011 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Wolves may get separate listing
The Mexican gray wolf could get stronger protection, environmentalists say, due to a federal decision to consider classifying it as an endangered species on its own.
Rosemont stressing copper's greenness
The young girl stands in the sunshine, holding a solar panel, a symbol of a new copper mine's environmental promise.
Jaguar trapper guilty
The biologist at the center of the controversy over a jaguar's capture and subsequent death last year admitted Friday in federal court that he tried to snare the animal, known as Macho B.
AZ worker placed on leave over jaguar death
An Arizona Game and Fish Department employee has been put on administrative leave as a result of an internal department investigation into last year's capture and death of the jaguar Macho B, the department said Tuesday.
Mexican wolf population dipping
The Mexican wolf population in Arizona and New Mexico plunged to its lowest level in seven years in 2009, with eight wolves including four pups found dead last year, officials said Friday.
Jaguar's capture broke law, feds say
Last year's capture of the last known wild jaguar in the United States by state workers was intentional - and the evidence points to criminal wrongdoing, a new federal report says.
State's capture of jaguar Macho B was intentional, federal investigators conclude
The capture of Macho B, the last known wild jaguar in the United States, was intentional, according to a new investigative report by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General.
AZ wanted a jaguar collared despite 2 deaths in Sonora
The two young biologists tried to sedate the snared jaguar with a blow gun. They thrust at it with an improvised jab stick.
Permit for jaguar's capture questioned
Arizona's Game and Fish Department may have lacked the proper permit to capture a jaguar when Macho B stepped into a snare trap in Southern Arizona's oak woodlands last February.
Jaguar's capture flawed, some say
The State Game and Fish employees who captured Macho B Feb. 18 used the simplest existing protocol for handling the wild cat, not a more complete one that could have better protected the nation's last known wild jaguar.
Feds agree to look at jaguar's capture
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will open a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the capture and euthanization of the jaguar Macho B, service officials said Thursday.
I baited jaguar trap, research worker says
A trap the state says inadvertently snared the last known wild jaguar in the United States actually was baited with female jaguar scat, a member of the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project says.
April 02, 2009 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
New details trigger call for federal investigation into jaguar capture
New information about the Feb. 18 capture and subsequent death of Macho B has prompted an investigation by Arizona's Attorney General.
Pulte halts plan for big complex in Benson
Pulte Homes has pulled out of a proposed Anthem housing development in Benson, citing the weak national housing market.
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