EAGAR — Twelve Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep are now exploring new territory on the Apache National Forest in eastern Arizona, announced the Arizona Game and Fish Department (department). The sheep were captured June 25 using a drop net on the Morenci Mine property, owned by Freeport McMoRan, Inc. (FMI), in southeastern Arizona, in cooperation with...Read More
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), along with volunteers from around the state, has established a new herd of federally endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. “This is the first reintroduction effort of a new herd of Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep since 1988,” said Tom Stephenson, CDFW bighorn recovery program leader. Historically, Sierra bighorn...Read More
State wildlife officials will euthanize as many as 50 wild bighorn sheep in the Naches area this month in hopes of curbing the spread of a deadly pneumonia outbreak. State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services biologists will spend the next several weeks removing sheep from the...Read More