Rare Jaguar in New Mexico

i watched a program recently on discovery channel where two guys with arizona game are actually tracking and getting game trail photos on a pair of jaguars they believe migrated in from mexico
 
Careful of those two; they're looking to convince anybody who will listen, that jaguars used to be indigenious to the southwest,and are dying to find yet one example of a female to prove,at least to themselves, that breeding pairs inhabit southern Arizona.
Jaguars are of course, aquatic cats, living primarily in true jungle terrain,where lots of water is available,as well as their favorite fare, tapir and such. To many more sightings or hair rubs and trail cam pics,and you'll see portions of the border country closed to hunting, of course to protect the once indigenious population....which never has existed.
Thus far, only a very few rogue males, which have ventured up from the Sierra Madre in northern Mexico have been photoed or had hair rubs sites visited.
 
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There's some Jags coming over from Mexico, for sure...

Seen bear & lions come from Mexico as well. Seems like they they like our food better here. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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There's some Jags coming over from Mexico, for sure...

Seen bear & lions come from Mexico as well. Seems like they they like our food better here. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif



There are lots more things crossing the border.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

And they get better rights than us and health care... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
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the first time i saw this pic it was taken in az not in nm



Same here! We don't have any jaguars here in NM. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Warner Glenn treed that big kitty, I think it was in 06. He wrote a book about it. And it was in NM not AZ. This was posted a few days ago in the houndsmen forum.
 
Here are the facts, to much coffee room talk.

Sightings


A jaguar passes into New Mexico
© Warner Glenn


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Return of a Native Cat: Wild Jaguar Spotted in New Mexico
by Curtis Runyan
Arizona rancher Warner Glenn has now had two once-in-a-lifetime encounters with jaguars, the latest in February during a mountain lion-hunting trip in the Bootheel of New Mexico. “I thought it was an old tom lion,” says Glenn. “But when I got closer, I saw it was a jaguar—it was an absolutely beautiful cat.”

After spotting it, Glenn walked back to his mule and reached into his saddlebag. “This is a really remote corner of the country, where a rancher might easily say, ‘I don’t want to have anything to do with an endangered species anywhere near my land,’” says Jonathan Adams, a Nature Conservancy biologist. “But Warner Glenn didn’t reach for his gun; he reached for his camera.” And he did the same in 1996, when he took the first pictures ever of a live jaguar in the United States.

The jaguar—the largest cat native to the Americas—has been making its way north from a core population of a couple hundred cats 140 miles to the south, according to biologists. “Historically, jaguars ranged as far north as the Grand Canyon,” says Peter Warren, a Conservancy grassland manager in Arizona. “The return of these big cats is an indicator that conservation work near the border is paying off.”

Glenn is part of the Malpai Borderlands Group, a team of ranchers that works with scientists, conservationists and public agencies to protect its lands from encroaching development by maintaining a “working wilderness” in the rugged and biologically diverse lands along the Arizona and New Mexico borders with Mexico. The Conservancy has partnered with the group since its beginning in 1994, assisting with more than 75,000 acres of conservation easements and helping to apply prescribed burns to about 150,000 acres.

Like most people living in the hardscrabble border region, Glenn needs to supplement his work as a rancher, and he does so by guiding hunting trips. He first hunted mountain lions on his ranch with his father more than 60 years ago to protect the livestock. “I know it’s difficult for some people to stomach,” says Warren. “But hunting a few animals is fairly benign when we’re talking about significant benefits to an entire ecosystem.” Recent in-creases in mountain lion populations have led to declines in bighorn sheep and other Southwestern species, he says.

“These ranchers live on land that is very difficult to manage, and the Malpai group is working to manage their land in a way that is responsible and sustainable,” says Nathan Sayre, a University of California geographer and author of a recent book on the borderlands. “The jaguar’s return is a symbol of that success.”
 
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I'm guessing that they've done a little bit more research than you on this one.



Just out of curiosity who are the "they" that have done what research? Unless my browser is not showing everything all you have a map with no references to anything including the animal (guess its an animal, could be a plant) that is being targeted.
 


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