wapiti11
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Big deduction in either sex tags and ewe tags in districts 482 (second year at 5 either sex), 680 and 622.
Montana missouri breaks sheep 2025 regs.
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Hawk Tuah
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Doesn't matter how many there are...this is my year to hunt the breaks again.
BigHornRam
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Bighorn sheep hunting licenses reduced in Missouri Breaks Hunting District 622
Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks announced Monday that hunting licenses inMissouri Breaks Hunting District 622 have been reduced after population decline that
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It’s a disease problem, not a hunting problem. A handful more deadheads laying in the Breaks vs. in someone’s trophy room wouldn’t make a difference. And we will wash, rinse, and repeat this cycle as long as we continue to let people do whatever they GD want wherever they GD want to do it.
I wasn't implying that issuing the extra permits is the main reason that sheep numbers are way down. In response to your comment though, do bighorns get lungworms from domestic sheep? It is something I hadn't heard of until this year.
Bambistew
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I thought someone was going to take their gloves off?
Seems like you need more auction tags and fundraising. Maybe some guzzlers?
Seems like you need more auction tags and fundraising. Maybe some guzzlers?
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Is a Montana landowner’s push to graze domestic animals dangerous to bighorn sheep? // GOHUNT. The Hunting Company
Hunters gather to discuss impacts to Missouri Breaks herd
Look what 5 years can do.
BigHornRam
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Ecology of gastropod and bighorn sheep hosts of lungworm on isolated, semiarid mountain ranges in Utah, USA - PubMed
Isolated, nonmigratory populations of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) may experience high exposure to lungworms (Protostrongylus spp.) through a build-up of fecal material. However, semiarid climates may hinder lungworm transmission by limiting terrestrial gastropods, the intermediate hosts. We...
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Lungworm is not the primary concern. Bacteria is.
Keeping Wild Sheep Healthy
The Wildlife Society & American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians Joint Issue Statement - Domestic Sheep and Goats Disease Transmission Risk to Wild Sheep
WAFWA Recommendations for Domestic Sheep and Goat Management in Wild Sheep Habitat
BigHornRam
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Bighorn sheep populations bounce back in southern Missouri River Breaks
Bighorn sheep populations in the Southern Missouri River Breaks appear to be recovering from low numbers of the prior two years.
Southern Elk
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The domestic sheep farming industry must be the best at lobbying. I’ve never been able to understand how they are so powerful and wild sheep don’t seem to matter. I know you are much more knowledgeable on this than the rest of us are. If some disease like this threatened grizzlies or wolves, the feds would be all over it. It’s so frustrating as someone whose lifelong dream has been to hunt bighorns, knowing that I will never get the chance.
What I've always said is that if something was being permitted on public land or in someone's backyard here in Colorado that could wipe out 70% of the White River or Bears Ears elk herd, there would be a hell of a lot more action being taken than is currently being done on the sheep conflict.
Bambistew
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I presume you know the back story on the wild sheep or lack there of in your backyard in the Gravelys/Greenhorns? If not, the saga is worth the reserch. How one ranch owner can dictate the management of wild sheep is crazy.
The best part is W$F partnered with them, and was selling W$F logo'd merch made with their wool...
Makes you wonder about the guy who was going to take his gloves off and fight, yet he seemingly just swapped them for a pair of velcro ones.
More conservation dollarz from auction tags and backpack races will get it done!
Hunting Wife
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Most ungulates get lungworms. It is not uncommon. Cattle, bison, elk, deer, sheep, goats, etc. There are several genera and species, but they don’t often cause mortality in and of themselves. They do cause lung irritation and may make individuals more susceptible to the secondary infections @Oak mentioned, which are much more lethal for wild sheep.
Southern Elk
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I do not. Must have been before my time. I do know that there is a shit ton of domestic sheep up there every summer. I would love to hear the story if you have time.
BigHornRam
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Here's a link to start your research.
‘Lost art’: Southwest Montana ranchers hold on to sheep grazing tradition
Grazing large sheep herds in the mountains is a dwindling practice, and the Helles are one of the last families who do so in Montana. As a result the Helle
Southern Elk
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May the grizzlies eat them all.Here's a link to start your research.
‘Lost art’: Southwest Montana ranchers hold on to sheep grazing tradition
Grazing large sheep herds in the mountains is a dwindling practice, and the Helles are one of the last families who do so in Montana. As a result the Hellewww.bozemandailychronicle.com
Nameless Range
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I think often about this quote from Norman Maclean's story "Black Ghost". He was talking about sheep's propensity to graze the earth leaving nothing else for other critters, and he wrote it on a hunch that a hunter purposefully started this fire to incinerate a herd of domestic sheep, but the sentiment fits for Bighorns too.
"The fire had started near the mouth of the tributary, on the assumption, we assumed, that the fire would burn up the tributary, which was box canyon, all cliffs, with no way of getting sheep out of it. From a deer hunter's point of view, it was a good place for sheep to die."
BigHornRam
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I ran into one of Helle's sheep herders running a bunch through the notch, when I was scouting for mountain goats. He was worried about grizzlies and wolves and asked if I had seen any. He was from South America, Bolivia I think. We had a hard time understanding each other, and I don't think he understood what I was looking for. His little sheep dogs were impressive animals, keeping 500 to a 1000 sheep in a tight little bunch.
Hobby sheep and goat flocks are the real threat for disease transmission to bighorns in Montana these days.
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