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The system detected animals approaching the highway and activated the motorist alert signs 97 percent of the time, including the initial period where the bugs were being worked out," says Dodd, who was a leading proponent for habitat connectivity and decreasing wildlife-vehicle collisions while working as a research biologist at the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

We're really pleased with the success to the point where we're getting the process ready to start another reintroduction," said James Driscoll, an Arizona Game and Fish Department biologist.

I'm guardedly optimistic" about the Sonoran pronghorn's chances, says James DeVos, a retired Arizona Game and Fish Department biologist who has studied the animals in the wild.

As already mentioned, the Arizona Game and Fish Department offers javelina tags through a draw or you can buy them direct from the San Carlos Apache Reservation.

CONTACT: Arizona Game and Fish Department, (602)942-3000, www.

We will just hold them in a safe location until things calm down," said Don Mitchell, a fisheries program manager with the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

For example, John Hervert and his colleagues from the Arizona Game and Fish Department have been hauling water tubs to remote areas on the wildlife refuge where they have tracked pronghorn activity The four-mile hikes with five-gallon jugs of water in 105-degree temperatures is proof of their dedication; the fact that the animals drink the water is proof of their desperation.

In 1932 the Arizona Game and Fish Department requested a hatchery and a year later it was constructed for the purpose of propagating fish to be used for restocking lakes and streams.