Montana missouri breaks sheep 2025 regs.

[TheTone]

I’ve yet to figure out why any company or person in the hunting space supports Duckworth

 

[BigHornRam]

I’ve yet to figure out why any company or person in the hunting space supports Duckworth

The old army surplus wool pants for $10 were great. How much would a Duckworth pair set you back today?

 

[TheTone]

The old army surplus wool pants for $10 were great. How much would a Duckworth pair set you back today?

Doesn’t look like they make traditional wool pants but leggings will set you back between $120-$180

 

[BigHornRam]

Doesn’t look like they make traditional wool pants but leggings will set you back between $120-$180

What are leggings?

 

[Steve O]

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.

Such a frustrating and $hitty situation.

 

[LopeHunter]

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.

Was it Montana where the State would not play ball to buy a landowner's property or swap public for private so the landowner pushed a crapton of domestic sheep onto the land neighboring bighorn sheep? Maybe was 5 years ago? That is gangster to risk bighorns when is plenty of suitable grazing further from bighorn herds. But, hey, we need a few people to set the bar on humanity quite low so the rest of us look like heroes for just being no more than a slightly crappy person.

 

[INMT]

What are leggings?

You know

 

[BigHornRam]

You know

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Long underwear?

 

[Hem]

Prehistoric leggings.

 

[BigHornRam]

I looked up their website. Here's a list of their targeted customer base. No surprises here.

 

[SAJ-99]

Commission to consider closing bighorn sheep hunting in HD 622​

HELENA – The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold an emergency public meeting Monday, March 31 to consider closing bighorn sheep hunting for 2025 in hunting district 622.

The commission meeting will start at 10 a.m. and be streamed online via the FWP website or FWP’s YouTube channel. The proposal to close bighorn sheep hunting in HD 622 can be found online, where people are also welcome to comment.
The meeting will be held virtually and people can sign up to comment through the FWP website by March 31 at 7 a.m.
The meeting is prompted by recent surveys conducted by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ biologists. Only a handful of sheep were seen during the surveys and biologists suspect the herd in the HD 622 has declined to the point that there is no longer a huntable population.
During its December meeting the Fish and Wildlife Commission lowered the permits in HD 622 to one either-sex license and one ewe license in response to concerns that disease was causing a population decline in the area.
HD 622 encompasses a portion of the north side of the Missouri Breaks in northeast Montana. The area has had robust populations of bighorn sheep in recent years, but biologists suspect disease within the herd is causing this rapid population decline. A hunter-harvested ram from the area in 2024 tested positive for the bacteria that causes pneumonia.
If the commission approves the closure, FWP will contact license applicants who have applied for these licenses and offer them the option of changing their application. The deadline to apply for bighorn sheep licenses is May 1.​

 

[300stw]

put them on the endangered list, seems sheep are more endagered then grizzley bears,

then maybe theres money. effort, laws to try something different to help sheep

 

[Matthew57]

I’ve yet to figure out why any company or person in the hunting space supports Duckworth

I’m not aware, what have they done that’s bad?

 

[Forkyfinder]

What was the cause of this?

 

[BigHornRam]

What was the cause of this?

Some Sheep in the Breaks have tested positive for the bacteria that cause pneumonia in the past, like these captured sheep that were transplanted into the Little Belts. What triggers a die off? Stress is thought to play a role.

Several bighorn sheep in the Little Belt Mountains have died from pneumonia

Several other bighorn sheep in the same herd have also exhibited symptoms of respiratory disease.

www.krtv.com

 

[SAJ-99]

Some Sheep in the Breaks have tested positive for the bacteria that cause pneumonia in the past, like these captured sheep that were transplanted into the Little Belts. What triggers a die off? Stress is thought to play a role.

Several bighorn sheep in the Little Belt Mountains have died from pneumonia

Several other bighorn sheep in the same herd have also exhibited symptoms of respiratory disease.

www.krtv.com

Damn. First I heard of that. Sheep will drive a biologist insane.

 

[300stw]

are the sheep stressed due to trump, or something else,

ive been watching some rams near 622 for a few years, last winter couldnt turn them up anywhere, i was thinking poachers,,,,

 

[Forkyfinder]

are the sheep stressed due to trump, or something else,

ive been watching some rams near 622 for a few years, last winter couldnt turn them up anywhere, i was thinking poachers,,,,

Predators cant be hunted on the cmr.
20 ewe tags last year. Domestic sheep spreading illness. Poachers probably too.

 

[SAJ-99]

Predators cant be hunted on the cmr.
20 ewe tags last year. Domestic sheep spreading illness. Poachers probably too.

Read the article in post 3. No smoking gun yet, but various disease.

 

[BigHornRam]

Colton and Kaitlyn both gave very good presentations on their bighorn research, in Bozeman, two weeks ago.

Alpine Enigmas: UM Researchers Study Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Goats

Mountain sheep and goats remain relatively understudied compared to more visible local ungulates like deer and elk. This winter a UM team hopes to change that.

www.umt.edu

Interesting science coming out of this multi year project in the Highlands, concerning chronic pathogen carriers, and GPS tracking of 5 distinct sub-herds of bighorn sheep in this unit. They are also tracking lamb survival data in this herd.