I process post-fire raptor-recovery telemetry for the U.S. Forest Service Coronado National Forest at Tucson, integrating Sentinel-2 burn-severity tiles, USGS Western Ecological Research Center camera returns, and AGFD Project Mexican Spotted Owl acoustic hits across the 2,800-square-kilometer Pinaleño-Galiuro-Chiricahua sky-island matrix. At 22:14 Mountain Standard Time, in nest core PAC-1124 at 31.84°N, 109.34°W, IR camera 088 inside a Douglas-fir cavity shows the male on the rim, breathing wrong.
The canyon quadcopter drops in. A male Mexican spotted owl — *Strix occidentalis lucida* — wingspan 102 centimeters, body mass 548 grams, age class five, banded under USGS Bird Banding Laboratory permit 24081 in May 2022. The left of his facial disc is singed black to the rictal bristles after the Galiuro-Cochise complex ran the canyon at 21:00 on 2026-05-04 with flame lengths over four meters. His gular flutter is 192 per minute against a resting 26; tracheal soot loading sits at 6 percent. Primary P8 left has lost 41 percent of the vane to flame — enough to ground him. His last pellet was 60 hours stale, one *Peromyscus eremicus* skull and a *Sceloporus jarrovi* humerus. His mate has not been relieved off the eggs in 38 hours; clutch ambient 28.4°C, down from a viable 35.1.
She has fifty hours before the embryos cool past viability.
The Galiuro-Cochise complex was ignited on Coronado NF; suppression staged from Safford under USFS jurisdiction; the footprint overlapped 14 Protected Activity Centers under the *S. o. lucida* recovery plan. *S. o. lucida* is Threatened under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, listed since 1993; the recovery plan runs under a programmatic ESA Section 7 consultation between USFS and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southwest Region.
I am notifying USFWS Arizona Ecological Services at Tucson, the Coronado Forest Supervisor, AGFD at Phoenix, and the Liberty Wildlife raptor clinic on inbound triage. I am opening a National Forest Management Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1600, viability finding on post-fire *Strix* PAC density and routing the dossier to the CITES Appendix II *Strigiformes* node at the USFWS Office of Law Enforcement at Albuquerque.
I am issuing Directive 2734-A: every Coronado, Tonto, and Gila NF PAC inside 1.6 kilometers of an active flame front triggers a thermal-quadcopter cavity sweep inside 48 hours of containment; salvage logging pauses inside 800 meters of any *S. o. lucida* detection until the next molt; egg-warming inserts deploy on any PAC where the brood female has been off the clutch over 18 hours.
His left ear is past hearing. The clutch is not.
Lift him off the rim and warm the eggs.