This is just across 95 from Stone Cabin if you don't know where King Valley is.
Two new populations of endangered Sonoran pronghorns will be established in southwestern Arizona under a plan that has been approved by federal wildlife officials.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan taking effect Friday allows biologists to set up a breeding and release enclosure in King Valley on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge outside Yuma.
Eleven breeding-age pronghorn will be moved to the enclosure next winter and by late 2013 as many as 20 two-year-olds will be released into the wild. A second new population will be established later southeast of Gila Bend.
The extremely skittish migratory animals used to be abundant in Arizona but development and roads cut their range and they nearly went extinct a decade ago.
About 100 are alive in southern Arizona and 470 in Mexico.
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Find 'em. Learn 'em. Shoot 'em. Eat 'em.
Two new populations of endangered Sonoran pronghorns will be established in southwestern Arizona under a plan that has been approved by federal wildlife officials.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan taking effect Friday allows biologists to set up a breeding and release enclosure in King Valley on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge outside Yuma.
Eleven breeding-age pronghorn will be moved to the enclosure next winter and by late 2013 as many as 20 two-year-olds will be released into the wild. A second new population will be established later southeast of Gila Bend.
The extremely skittish migratory animals used to be abundant in Arizona but development and roads cut their range and they nearly went extinct a decade ago.
About 100 are alive in southern Arizona and 470 in Mexico.
?
-Sig
Find 'em. Learn 'em. Shoot 'em. Eat 'em.
