I personally hope this jaguar thing becomes huge, a plan is required, jaguars are introduced to AZ and NM and lots of money is wasted on it. I hope the populations of those States are abused just like we have been with wolves. Where we have little political clout, the populations of AZ and NM have more and if they and their local economies, hunting and recreating are as roughly treated as ours, maybe they will join the fight against the Predator Worshippers that have seized this country by the throat. Of course, it appears from the story that they have already exercised their clout...

It is high time we take a very close look at the place predators have and should have in the ecology of the West and elsewhere. What is needed is a complete rewriting of the Endangered Species Act, the interpretations of which are the source of the mayhem USF&WS has caused with Canadian wolves here and increasingly elsewhere.

The treatment of jaguars in this instance is absurd. There are 70,000 wolves in North America yet the USF&WS felt compelled to dump them here. Jaguars should be supported in the US SW. Of course!! It has been known forever that jaguar's range includes the southern USA. Poor things, they deserve to be protected, their numbers artificially supported and the local people's interests completely disregarded. What is good for the north should be good for the south.