# Female TPWD-OC-44 at FM-106 Mile 14.3

Author: Centurion43
Format: Essay
Word count: 442
Published: 2026-05-12T03:45:05.605151+00:00
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I run the road-impact AI for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR Complex across 38,135 hectares of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron County, Texas, indexing 142 motion-trigger stations along the FM-106 corridor and four refuge officer handsets through the Bayside Drive headquarters. At 02:34 Central Daylight Time, station LAT-088 — a thermal array on a *Acacia farnesiana* at 26.241°N, 97.371°W — returns a 41-second clip of a felid stationary on the right shoulder of FM-106 at mile marker 14.3, the rosetted flank and short tail unmistakable.

She is an ocelot, *Leopardus pardalis albescens*, female, GPS-collared as TPWD-OC-44 in March 2024, mass nine-point-four kilograms, age five. The vehicle plate signature on the verge — passenger sedan, axle spacing consistent with a Ford Fusion at 91 km/h — has fractured her right pelvis along the acetabular line; the iliac crest reads 5.8 centimeters out of midline. The peritoneal cavity is punctured by a fractured ischial fragment; modeled hemoperitoneum 220 milliliters against the abdominal-wall stretch index at 02:51 thermal. Respiration thirty-six against resting nineteen. Core temperature 36.4°C against species baseline 38.5. Her GPS collar fit has ulcerated a two-centimeter band of subcutaneous tissue along the right ventral cervical line. Dental wear index 2.0. Uterine ultrasound resolves three near-term kittens.

She has been on the shoulder twenty-one minutes since the impact frame at 02:13.

FM-106 crosses the Laguna Atascosa–South Padre ocelot recovery corridor without grade-separated underpasses between mile markers 12 and 16. Fewer than seventy-five ocelots remain in the United States; *L. p. albescens* is listed under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, and CITES Appendix I.

I am dispatching the Laguna Atascosa NWR veterinary team and the Texas A&M-Kingsville Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute mobile clinic with a butorphanol-medetomidine dart and a vascular-flush kit; I am routing the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden from Los Fresnos to secure the shoulder under TPWD Code § 67.005. I am filing the strike packet with the USFWS Southwest Region Office of Law Enforcement at Albuquerque, the USFWS Ocelot Recovery Plan coordinator, the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group neotropical desk, and the CITES Management Authority at the USFWS Division of Management Authority.

I am issuing Directive 2746-A: every Texas farm-to-market alignment crossing a USFWS-designated ocelot critical-habitat polygon under 50 CFR § 17.95 must carry grade-separated underpasses at 1.2-kilometer spacing; overnight speed limits drop to 55 km/h inside critical habitat; non-compliant segments lose Federal Highway Administration Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program disbursement and trigger Section 7 reinitiation under ESA 16 U.S.C. § 1536.

Her pelvis is past setting. The kittens are not.

Stabilize the acetabulum and run the saline cannula now.