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December 3rd 2013
On Thursday, Kevin Hurley was thankful for many things, but the sight of a bighorn ram within 6 feet of a flock of domestic sheep was not one of them. On Thanksgiving Day, Hurley, conservation director for the Wild Sheep Foundation, was driving to Gardiner from Livingston on his way to visit friends. North of Yankee Jim Canyon, he detoured to the west side of the Yellowstone River where he saw a gaggle of photographers snapping pictures of 60 to 70 bighorn sheep. After returning to the highway and entering the Gardiner Basin, he glanced over at a field with a herd of domestic sheep and slowed. “I caught a motion out of the corner of my eye and saw a ram coming off the hill,” Hurley said. “He crossed over to the fence and hopped over at a low spot like he knew right where to go.” The ram had jumped into a pasture where Jardine resident Bill Hoppe has moved his...
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November 26th 2013
Cody, Wyoming USA – November 26, 2013. The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) congratulates the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) on their successful November 18, 2013 transplant of 31 desert bighorn sheep (6 rams, 24 ewes, and 1 ram lamb) into the Pusch Ridge wilderness area on the Coronado National Forest, northeast of Tucson. “Given the Wild Sheep Foundation’s stated purpose ‘To Put and Keep Sheep on the Mountain’, this recent bighorn capture/transplant by AZGFD and a host of diverse collaborators absolutely reinforces this as an effective technique for restoring bighorn sheep to historic ranges,” stated WSF Conservation Director Kevin Hurley. “Four essential elements are typically needed for a successful bighorn sheep transplant: suitable habitat on the release end, a healthy source population on the capture end, public support and...
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November 11th 2013

Utah’s bighorn sheep herds are about to get new neighbors, and they will be coming from Southern Nevada. Biologists from the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are teaming up to capture as many as 50 sheep from the Muddy and Black mountain ranges northeast of Las Vegas. Biologists plan to release those animals in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

This capture operation is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 4 and 5, and will be the second such capture and release in as many years. In October 2012, the two agencies trapped 50 Nevada sheep from the River and Muddy mountain herds, which were then released in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

“This is an opportunity for us to assist Utah in their efforts to restore desert bighorn sheep to historic habitats where herds were extirpated or...

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September 18th 2013
ALMA – New Mexico Department of Game and Fish conservation officer KC Gehrt recovered a dead, world-class, bull elk outside of Reserve Sept. 4. Poaching is suspected.
Hunters discovered the rotting, but completely intact, elk carcass in a canyon, a mile and a half east of Little Round Mountain. Hunters in the area last saw the massive elk alive Sept. 1.
“It’s stealing,” hunter Jeff Lewis said. “The state lost a huge amount. That’s a once in a lifetime bull.” Lewis and his hunting partner Don Roach had been tracking and shooting video of the enormous elk for three years.
“Up until this year, every time we would have an encounter with him he would disappear,” Lewis said. “But this year he was visible every morning and every night. We thought we would have a chance to have a stalk on him and have a chance to harvest....