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Some happier jaguar news
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 31 at 9:02:09 pm | 3 comments

A jaguar whiles away its life at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. FWS Photo.

From the Arizona Daily Star:

A federal judge overruled an agency’s decision today that had stopped preparation of a recovery plan and designation of prime protected
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Jaguar Death Was Unnecessary
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 30 at 11:57:21 pm | 6 comments

Some upsetting news from our friends at the Center for Biological Diversity. Cut and pasted from an email alert sent out by CBD’s Kieran Suckling:

Two weeks ago the last known American jaguar died. Not in the wild. Not by mistake. He was
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Jaguar press conference video
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 11 at 2:57:41 pm | 0 comments

Via Arizona Game and Fish, a press conference held Thursday March 5 in Tucson to discuss the unfortunate demise of Macho B, the only jaguar known to have lived recently in the US.
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Jaguar update
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 04 at 3:50:45 pm | 4 comments

Looks like I was wrong in saying Macho B was lucky he was collared. I’d thought it had saved him from an agonizing death by kidney failure. Turns out the capturing and sedation caused his kidney failure.

From Kieran Suckling at the Center for
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RIP Macho B
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 03 at 2:31:02 pm | 5 comments

Sad news involving Macho B, the jaguar recently collared and re-released in southern Arizona. Unfortunately, the big cat had to be euthanized today after veterinarians determined that he was in severe and unrecoverable kidney failure, a common
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I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

About Coyote Crossing

This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

* May not actually equal 1000

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