The Arcosanti gardens, fields and orchards are surrounded by wild Highland Desert. When one hikes into this desert, awareness is of potential encounters with a rattlesnake, a group of wild pigs, skunks, a beautiful hawk floating overhead, an amazing diversity of birds and if moving with quiet stealth, possibly a bobcat. The Arcosanti chickens and their eggs are a great temptation for the natural predators in our desert neighborhood. A bobcat has been visiting and helping himself to chicken dinners. Since we have a no-gun rule at Arcosanti, the Agriculture crew set a cunning cage-trap with a rooster in another cage as bait ....
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & Text: sa]
... and caught this beautiful bobcat.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & Text: sa]
Agriculture manager Brad Crutchfield smiles. The bobcat was recovered by Southern Arizona Wildlife Conservationists for re-location.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & Text: sa]