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In 2012, a cat named El Jefe (The Boss in Spanish) was spotted in the Santa Rita Mountains, then reappeared in Mexico in 2015. Another jaguar dubbed Sombra (Shadow in Spanish) was seen north of ...
El Jefe is an adult, male jaguar that was seen in Arizona. [1] He was first recorded in the Whetstone Mountains in November 2011, [3] and was later photographed over several years in the Santa Rita Mountains. From November 2011 to late 2015, El Jefe was the only wild jaguar verified to live in the United States since the death of Arizona Jaguar ...
FILE - This image taken from video provided by Fort Huachuca shows a wild jaguar on Dec. 1, 2016, in southern Arizona. An environmental group on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, petitioned the U.S. Fish and ...
The northern west–east perimeter of the sky island region merges into the higher elevation eastern Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains of eastern Arizona (southern Anasazi region). The sky islands are the northernmost of the Madrean pine–oak woodlands, and are classified as part of the Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests ecoregion ...
The Huachuca Mountains are part of the Sierra Vista Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, approximately 70 miles (110 km) south-southeast of Tucson and southwest of the city of Sierra Vista. Included in this area is the highest peak in the Huachucas, Miller Peak, and the region of the ...
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It is possibly extirpated in the United States; [1] a 1999 study refuted claims of sightings in Arizona, in the Huachuca Mountains in Santa Cruz County. [43] [44] The last confirmed sighting in the U.S. was of a roadkilled individual near Brownsville, Texas, in 1986. [42] Jaguarundis have been sighted in Florida since the early 20th century.
The Chiricahua Mountains massif is a large mountain range in southeastern Arizona which is part of the Basin and Range province of the west and southwestern United States and northwest Mexico; the range is part of the Coronado National Forest. The highest point, Chiricahua Peak, rises 9,759 feet (2,975 m) above sea level, approximately 6,000 ...