Sonoran Broadband • Entered by Roz Switzer on September 1, 2023
Lobo Tracking
July 29, 2023 – August 30, 2023
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 70 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 70 |
Key Issue: Wildlife Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Lobos of the Southwest
Short Description of Activity
Searching for Lobos and their sign in the White Mountains of Arizona/NM. Using the Arizona Game and Fish Lobo location map as the starting point for searching which is updated every two weeks based on GPS location collars.
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=dbcc9960867948aea225fc53c50d0ed0&extent=-110.6313,32.9752,-106.5746,34.932
Jenny Cobb/Prescott Yavapai BB has already submitted the activity reports for our July 20 – 24th joint Broadband campout in the White Mountains in which Lobo tracking was one activity, as well as the August 7 – 9th Lobo tracking Jenny and I did together. This report is for activities that I carried out on my own.
Reflection/Evaluation
Although this is a fun activity, it is not frivolous. Due to the high incidence of illegal killings of Lobos it is good to have a presence in Lobo country. It is also good that the agencies in charge know that people are paying attention to the Lobos, livestock grazing and other conditions.
For instance, a GPS location showed a wolf somewhat close to the town of Eager. I drove around the backroads in the area and found two carcass dump sites, one of cattle and one of deer, that could possibly have attracted this single wolf to the area. I documented them, just in case this wolf got in trouble for any predation incidences.