Sheep Show in Reno

[Bambistew]

50x20=1000 rams. Remove a ram and you remove 1 sheep. It’s not like removing ewes.

If Movi only killed 1000 sheep in the past 20 years we’d have a boatload of sheep. If Movi didn’t suppress lamb recruitment and therefore population growth over the past 20 years the way it does we’d have a boatload of sheep.

Current sheep population declines aren’t driven by sheep being killed by hunters; whether those hunters drew the tag, won the tag, or bought the tag.

We get it, you don’t like WSF.

W$F is claiming immaculate conception?

Have you considered that management style (kill only mature rams with no limit) is potentially responsible for the massive decline of thinhorn sheep? Noone can say for certain. Just like W$F proving they put more sheep on the mountain... Yet we have less

If the gloves actually came off and the membership grew a spine and stood up to the Ag industry, just imagine what could be done. The Ag industry has us all over a barrel. The difference is I don't give money to a group that brings their own Vasaline, so I'm the bad guy?

One of the highlights of the W$F, was selling Duckworth wool coats/vests with W$F logos on them. That was the biggest pillow biter move I've ever seen. That's like Biden wearing a MAGA hat.

Yes, they have killed more sheep than Movi, by their motivation of selling the biggest sheep to the richest fugg and the membership are so dim, they believe it's helping.

 

[Oak]

Interesting, I thought it was the state game agencies transplanting sheep and not W$F, using funds from selling public wildlife. Imagine of they got 100% of the funding from the transactions.

I can't speak for other states, but here's the way it works in CO.

The auction and raffle licenses are awarded to conservation organizations (in this case, RMBS). Those organizations administer the auctions and raffles and may retain up to 25% of the revenue to fund their own grant in aid programs. The RMBS chooses to sell the CO sheep auction license at the WSF Sheep Show in Reno, and provides WSF with a cut of our 25% to fund their own grant in aid program. In 2023-2024, WSF provided $300,000 to RMBS-supported projects here in CO. The RMBS has allocated a little over $487,000 to projects in those two years.

The revenue that is returned to the state goes into a dedicated account (by species) and is spent by the Big Game Auction and Raffle Project Advisory Committee (PAC), with final approval coming from the CPW Director. This is where funding for sheep transplants often comes from (if not from RMBS or the agency budget). The PAC is comprised of one representative from each conservation organization that receives an auction or raffle license, and one representative from CPW, BLM, and USFS. This year will be my 16th year on the PAC. In the last two years, the PAC has recommended funding a total of a little over $955,000 in sheep projects, all of which was approved by the Director.

In all, WSF, RMBS, and the CPW PAC have directed over $1.7 million to sheep projects here in the last two years. And yes, our statewide population has declined over that time due to disease. Write your congressperson.