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New Idaho State Record California Bighorn Sheep

Brad Visser with his Idaho California Bighorn Sheep

This huge new state record California Bighorn sheep was taken by Brad Visser this fall in Southwestern Idaho. It will shatter the current Idaho state record for California bighorn sheep. The California bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis californiana is considerably smaller than the Rocky Mountain bighorn, with rams of the same age weighing as much as [...]

Bighorn Sheep Herds Hit With Pneumonia

Pneumonia hits western bighorn herds

Over the past year, bighorn sheep in 11 herds in Montana, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming and Utah caught pneumonia. More than 1,000 — or about half in the affected herds — succumbed or were culled, with Montana alone losing about 10 percent of its bighorn sheep. In two cases, bighorns had mingled with domestic sheep or [...]

Idaho Sheep Auction Brings $120,000

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At FNAWS (Foundation for North American Wild Sheep) annual convention in Salt Lake City, an anonymous Oregon hunter paid $120,000 for Idaho’s auctioned bighorn sheep permit. Interestingly, that wasn’t the top auction item: Idaho’s permit brought the third highest amount of those offered by any western state or province for Rocky Mountain sheep in this [...]