Montana missouri breaks sheep 2025 regs.

[Southern Elk]

Die-offs can happen fast. How do you predict when they are going to happen?

All the more reason not to shoot ewes.

 

[BigHornRam]

All the more reason not to shoot ewes.

Overpopulated herds have triggered die-offs.

 

[Southern Elk]

Overpopulated herds have triggered die-offs.

Look, I appreciate all of the work that the biologists and everyone is doing with bighorn sheep. But you can’t convince me that we should be shooting ewes with the sad state of the population. There are other alternatives. What we are currently doing is not working.

 

[BigHornRam]

Look, I appreciate all of the work that the biologists and everyone is doing with bighorn sheep. But you can’t convince me that we should be shooting ewes with the sad state of the population. There are other alternatives. What we are currently doing is not working.

You should have showed up in Bozeman a couple weeks ago and voiced your opinions, and heard what is being done on the ground right now.

 

[Southern Elk]

You should have showed up in Bozeman a couple weeks ago and voiced your opinions, and heard what is being done on the ground right now.

Have a good day, sir.

 

[BigHornRam]

Julie Cunningham is working on translocating sheep into all of the available habitat in the Madison range in the next couple years. Potential for up to 1000 bighorns in that range. Talk to her. See what the plan is. Get involved.

 

[brockel]

FWP screwed up the draw, but took back the the ewe tags that were not supposed to be issued.

FWP to fix mistake in moose, big horn sheep draw

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced fewer licenses will be issued than drawn during last week's drawing for some moose and big horn sheep licenses due to

nbcmontana.com

But kept the ram tags right?

 

[BuzzH]

A young collared ram from the Skalkaho herd was found dead this winter from respitory disease. The GPS tracking of its movements last fall during the rut were unbelievable. I believe it logged over 700 miles, up and down the river bottom. I'm sure he came in contact with someone's 4-H hobby flock of sheep or goats, during this time. Sheep will travel much more, and in places that we ever thought possible. Especially young rams.

Maybe try getting your facts straight. No question young rams travel, so do old rams. I found the oldest collared ram in 261 last year in sleeping child. That ram, 10 years old, made a major move in November and moved to lower Rock Creek.

Also that wandering ram theory isn't holding much water, the sheep were dying in May, more died in July and August.

This was from last fall between the cattle guards in gird creek...wandering ram or pet goat from a Bitterroot horse ghetto? There was another goat on a horse ghetto right where gird creek leaves the highway.

 

[cgasner1]

Relocate them.

I’m a simple person and asked someone who understands sheep one day why we don’t do this. I got a good answer to why. I’m not even gonna attempt to tell you what he told me. With any luck maybe you’ll get a answer from someone on here but it’s just not as simple as let’s move some sheep

 

[BigHornRam]

Maybe try getting your facts straight. No question young rams travel, so do old rams. I found the oldest collared ram in 261 last year in sleeping child. That ram, 10 years old, made a major move in November and moved to lower Rock Creek.

Also that wandering ram theory isn't holding much water, the sheep were dying in May, more died in July and August.

This was from last fall between the cattle guards in gird creek...wandering ram or pet goat from a Bitterroot horse ghetto? There was another goat on a horse ghetto right where gird creek leaves the highway.

Did you shoot the goat?

 

[Oak]

This was from last fall between the cattle guards in gird creek...wandering ram or pet goat from a Bitterroot horse ghetto? There was another goat on a horse ghetto right where gird creek leaves the highway.

Who took that pic?

 

[cgasner1]

Did you shoot the goat?

That goat looks more like the $*)Q!#@$ kind than the eating kind

 

[BigHornRam]

That goat looks more like the $*)Q!#@$ kind than the eating kind

That's illegal to do, even in the Bitterroot.

 

[BuzzH]

Who took that pic?

Not sure it was sent to me by the bio after I killed my ram.

 

[BuzzH]

Did you shoot the goat?

No, because I never saw it while hunting or I would have.

 

[Knighted]

It looks like they are going to let people change their applications if they already entered for unit 622.

 

[Hem]

And the odds just became worse elesewhere.

 

[cgasner1]

And the odds just became worse elesewhere.

I almost wanna look and see how many max point people will be shifted into other units now

 

[mtmiller]

And the odds just became worse elesewhere.

So my 1.8% will now be 1.75%?

 

[BigHornRam]

Julie Cunningham is working on translocating sheep into all of the available habitat in the Madison range in the next couple years. Potential for up to 1000 bighorns in that range. Talk to her. See what the plan is. Get involved.

If you want to skip over all the nerdy stuff in the study, here is the meat and potatoes.