CO Bighorn Sheep - Inbreeding Not Cause of Decline
07-24-2015 | 01:52 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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CO Bighorn Sheep - Inbreeding Not Cause of Decline
07-26-2015 | 08:44 AM
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CO bighorn numbers have always been cyclic. The herd numbers goes up and down every couple of decades. One reason is diseases they get from domestic sheep and another is degradation of habitat. In times past sheep would migrate from area to area but now many of the migration routes have been blocked due to the construction of housing for the migrants that invaded CO. So the sheep are kind of restricted now.
They issue between 100 and 200 tags a year but the number is always based on the herd dynamics. There is always more than 10,000 people applying for the tags and they have become very, very hard to get.
They issue between 100 and 200 tags a year but the number is always based on the herd dynamics. There is always more than 10,000 people applying for the tags and they have become very, very hard to get.
