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Bighorn Sheep

  • Park officials consider killing off entire bighorn herd

    Ken Cole

    Custer State Park may just start over Park officials consider killing off entire bighorn herd Kevin Woster – Rapid City Journal Update 3/3/10 GF&P secretary: Killing off bighorns not a serious option

  • Pneumonia now killing bighorn in NE Utah too

    Ralph Maughan

    Disease Kills NE Utah Bighorn. AmmoLand.com

  • Our bighorn are sick and dying.

    Ken Cole

    400 dead this winter in an “unprecedented” series of events Populations of bighorn sheep are struggling with pneumonia throughout the west. Washington, Nevada, Montana, and most recently Utah are having outbreaks of pneumonia which have resulted in the deaths of 400 or more bighorn sheep. Statements like the following are often made about the outbreaks. “While…

  • Teton Range herd of bighorns at risk of extinction

    Ken Cole

    Winter recreation may be one of the impacts to the remaining bighorn. This population of bighorn sheep has dwindled to very low numbers. Inbreeding, habitat loss due to development, and domestic sheep disease have restricted these sheep to very high elevation and sites of low productivity so human entry into these areas during winter may…

  • ID Fish and Game shows they are turning Idaho's wolf plan into one like Wyoming's

    Ralph Maughan

    Leaked memo shows massive effort coming to kill off Idaho wolves- The memo below from Cal Groen, Director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department confirms my call about six months ago that the Department was working with, or told to work with livestock interests to devise a method for a massive wolf reduction program.…

  • More on the beleaguered bighorn

    Ralph Maughan

    Four Montana herds, two in Washington plagued by disease- Here is another update on the pneumonia killing  so many bighorn. The article also gives the total estimated bighorn populations of Idaho, Montana, and Washington. Hard times hit area bighorns. By Rich Landers. Spokesman-Review. “The Payette National Forest [in Western Idaho] recently released a draft proposal…

  • Deadly bighorn pneumonia east and southeast of Missoula spreads still further.

    Ralph Maughan

    Both upper and lower Rock Creek herds are now infected- Worse, the terrain is too rough in lower Rock Creek to cull the herd. It appears that over 400 bighorn are at risk. Well over a hundred have already be culled. Others have just died on their own. Pneumonia confirmed in Upper Rock Creek bighorn…

  • Bighorn east of Missoulia are dying like flies

    Ralph Maughan

    Pneumonia in bighorn has now spread to Rock Creek- It just keeps getting worse for the bighorn hit by the pneumonia outbreak near Missoula. Bighorn sheep in Rock Creek latest hit by fatal pneumonia outbreak. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian.

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