MT sheep have landed in WY

[mtmiller]

Sheep safe and sound in WY

 

[Nemont]

Did you take any pics?

 

[BigHornRam]

Shoot! One of the sheep guy's from Billings was hoping the truck would break down in the Pryor's.

 

[mtmiller]

I was on location the proposed day, but the chopper was sick and didn't leave the ground, so I searched sage-grouse winter habitat instead.

I stayed in the office the next day after the aircraft was ready to fly (EA's for gas ROW's is not as much fun), but another biologist from the office got a few pics.

Unloading

Blind-folded and no one looking.

Little blood work.

Wyoming boys putting on some jewelry.

I have some more, but you get the idea.

On another note, my sage-grouse pilot found lots of sage-grouse near this area. Identified winter range for sage-grouse in my area is weak at best, so today was good news. Located about 200 birds today and watched an eagle dining on a male grouse that was too slow.

Have a good weekend all.

 

[Oak]

Eagles have to eat, too.

I'll hopefully get to do some work on a telemetry study this year to help map seasonal grouse distribution. Have you ever seen them sew a transmitter on a 2-day old chick?

Cool pics...

 

[1_pointer]

Looks like the same technique we used. Did you trap them from the chopper? We used a drop net after baiting them with hay.

 

[mtmiller]

All taken with net guns from the chopper. We don't have those tame sheep around here.

 

[1_pointer]

We have an island that is used as a source for producing sheep for reintro's. Pretty cool. I like 'em stump broke.

They've been conditioning them to the net and feeding for over a year.

 

[Nemont]

We had a picture show and explanation of this from Calvin Johnson who worked this little rodeo for the MTFWP for our Kiwanis program today. I didn't realize they sent 20 head to Wyo. and 20 head to Nodak.

Anyway he had some really cool pics also.

Nemont