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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWildlife officials released a group of bighorn sheep to land they haven't touched in 100 years
Nevada wildlife officials and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe released 21 bighorn sheep in the hills of Pyramid Lake, where they haven't lived since the start of the 20th century. Judging by their euphoric gallops, the sheep like their new habitat just fine.
The crowd gathered for the bighorn sheep sendoff in Nevada far outnumbered the 21 animals who galloped out of their pens and into their new habitat. But the small number of sheep could be instrumental in securing the species' future.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe teamed up to release the desert bighorn sheep into the hills of Pyramid Lake, near the west Nevada-California border, last week. The animals haven't lived in that part of Nevada in 100 years, wildlife experts said.
Desert bighorn sheep, Nevada's state animal, once populated the state in the tens of thousands. But with Western settlement, their populations shrunk with excessive hunting and human encroachment.
They were virtually eradicated from Pyramid Lake in the top of the 20th century.
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Wildlife officials released a group of bighorn sheep to land they haven't touched in 100 years (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jan 2020
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maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)1. This is great. Reintroductions everywhere possible.
Olympic NP reintroduced the Fisher (a big weasel) year ago.
I've only seen bighorns deep in the canyons on the San Juan river. Unforgettable.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)3. Neat animals.
I had a ram literally right next to me near Salida while fishing the Arkansas. I don't think he realized I was a human since I was wading in the river.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)2. This is truly good news
The bighorn will survive well.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. What about the little horn sheep?
Why do the little horn sheep get passed over?
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)5. I don't know?
How can you find out?
Littlehorn Sheep The 'Alarming Results' of Trophy Hunting
https://www.realagriculture.com/2016/02/bighorn-evolution/
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)6. Better make sure that donald rump jr. doesn't go out there...nt
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)7. There's always that.
miyazaki
(2,220 posts)8. I'd pay money to see that herd dance on his face. nt