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Show MOUNTAIN National Park, in order to establish new and viable herds. Bighorn sheep permits remain the most sought after hunting licenses in Western North America. Hunters seek to increase Bighorn numbers and multiply harvest and hunting opportunities. Arizona is typical of the Bighorn hunting scene. In 1995 nearly 6,000 hunters applied for just over a hundred regular season permits. There, hunters Utah Bighorn Back Where They Belong white sheep in existence. A little less lives at elevations of 6,500 feet And in the mountain regions of nine western states, the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Baja California, five types of Bighorns occupy diverse habitats. In Utah and the mountain West, Rocky Mountain and Desert Bighorn are the prominent species. Bighorns n 1800, the were reportedly so numerous that they numbers an estimated 2 million across the west. But due to loss of habitat, predation, introduction of domestic sheep than —whose Varieties of Bighorn Various races of Bighorn, the desert form plus two species inhabit an extensive Alaska and parts of the Yukon Dall mountain sheep — the half the estimated including northern range. In lives the only wild population of these more lightly built animals live in the remote Brooks Range of Alaska. In the south-central Yukon and parts of British Columbia the Stone or black sheep (gray-blue to black in color) Mike Welch, Big Game Coordinator for the State Division of Wildlife Resources estimates there 2,200 2,300 Bighorn p in state with some 500 Rockies and 17! Desert sheep. Welch feels the popula tion could double in 10-15 years, bu in the near term may increase by as much as 20 percent The biggest Desert herds are in the north and south San Rafael and thi biggest Rocky Mountain group i: the Rattlesnake Canyon area north and east of Green River Terrain near the Utah, Nevada anc Idaho boundary junctions, and in pai ticular the Pilot, Raft, Newfoundland Continued on page | diseases the wild sheep are | : prone to but for which they have no immunity and due to lack of funding for management, the numbers of Bighorn shrank substantially to 10,000 — 15,000 animals by the early 1950’s. | Norway’s Independence Day Celebration Saturday, May 18th, LIVE MUSIC | 801-655-8393 710 (New Lower) Main Street » Park City sp ° Ss e& had nearly a 95 percent success rate, 40 percent of the kill was Arizona trophy book quality. In Montana and Colorado, where sheep numbers are 510 times higher than other Rocky Mountain states, demand for Bighorn sheep permits according to one guide “is just incredible.” Collect a trophy Rocky Mountain Bighorn, Desert Bighorn, Dall Sheep and Stone Sheep and you enter the swaggering Bighorn Grand Slam hall of fame. Maury Butterfield of Broken Arrow Trophy Hunt in Riverton calls these four sheep “The Cadillac of the big game group. They’re the toughest and costliest animal to hunt and there’s nothing like the prestige of the sheep Grand Slam.” Apply in Utah for a once in a lifetime Desert or Rocky Mountain sheep permit; 29 “regular” permits are available in Utah in 96. Or, pay a guide like Modern wild game management and private conservation activity has enhanced populations and sheep numbers have nearly doubled 1 Sa helicopter in areas such as Capitol Reef Maury some $50,000 for a Mexican Desert Bighorn hunt, $10,000 for an Alaskan Dall hunt, $12,000-15,000 for a British Columbia Stone Sheep hunt and another $5,00010,000 for a Montana Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep hunt and you can join with the 22 other reported Utah hunters, all coveted “Grand Slam” members. Or like the well-heeled Jerry Fletcher, bid in bigtime bucks at the annual “Foundation for North Wild Sheep” American (FNAWS) auction and purchase the privilege to hunt one or all of these four species in a selected state. off any bagel sandwich. é the warld’s best bagels. Park City 1890 Bonanza Drive (801) 645-8489 PAGE.11. (Our wiener lawyers wouldn't let us fool with this line) Only one coupon per visit. Coupon is not redeemable with any other coupon or special offer (duh). No reproductions allowed. Cash eB redemption value 1/20th of one cent (don’t quit your day job). Applicable taxes paid by bearer (that’s you). Valid only at ls, Inc Bros: Hage e tein @ 996 Eins Terha ps eit © 1996 Einstein Bros. Bagels, Inc. Continued from page 10 officials and activists have even gone so far as to transplant wild sheep by TIMES = |