Everyone One On This Damn Forum……

[Oak]

I got to meet George when I lived in Durango. I got to put my hands on the horns of his recently-taken S71 ram as it lay in the back of a pickup. This would’ve been 2009 or 2010. Heck of a guy.

Then you likely heard the story about how the S71 herd wouldn't exist without George pestering CDOW long enough about there being good winter habitat in the Animas Canyon that would support a herd of sheep. He went so far as to fly the local biologist up and down the canyon to convince him, and got his buddy Al Harper, who owns the D&SNGR to agree to haul the sheep up the canyon for release. Then George got in a bad car accident 2 days before the scheduled release in January 2001 and busted up his hip, so he couldn't be there for the release. Amazing that he ended up drawing an S71 tag years later and killed an ear-tagged ram from the original release.

We took a very short train up the Animas River in November 2023 to look for sheep...

 

[JAG]

This thread, yep.

To help, check this song out:

Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger​

And old rivers grow wilder​

ev'ry day Old people just grow lonesome​

Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"​