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Each year at the Sheep Show, hunters, outfitters, conservation leaders, and wildlife officials gather not only to celebrate wild sheep, but also to address the practical realities of how international conservation and lawful hunting intersect.

The Wild Sheep Foundation strongly supports today’s boost in federal funds for big game migration habitat. Nearly $10 million in federal, private, and tribal funds were announced today after the Make America Beautiful Commission meeting. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will award funds to projects through its competitive proposal program, the Western Big Game Seasonal Habitat and Migration Corridors Fund.

Each year at the Wild Sheep Foundation’s (WSF) Sheep Show, the spotlight shines on the wild sheep themselves, on the mountains they inhabit, and on the conservation successes that keep them there. But behind the scenes, two of the most important gatherings take place in a quieter setting: the Wildlife Professionals Meeting and the WAFWA Wild Sheep Initiative Meeting.
 

The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) welcomes today’s Interior Secretary’s Order ensuring maximum hunting and fishing opportunity on Interior public lands. The Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, today released Secretary Order 3447 to remove needless barriers to hunting and fishing, expand opportunities where provided by law, and improve coordination with state, tribal, and territorial wildlife agencies.

The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) recently released a statement on the disposal of federal public lands, which is available here. Consistent with this statement, WSF opposed the House Natural Resources Committee reconciliation bill that included directions to sell and exchange public land and is pleased that this was stricken from the bill before Senate voting.  

The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) applauds the passage and Governor Greg Gianforte’s signature of House Bill 932, which establishes a Habitat Legacy Account administrated by Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks (FWP).