Emergency Bighorn Hunt

[Oak]

I know with wild vs. domestic sheep that it's enough of a fight to simply maintain the herds of wild sheep that exist now, let alone growing the population. But I have to wonder, if you zapped every domestic sheep out of bighorn habitat in an instant, how much growth and progress of herd populations could take place?

Would we see areas where sheep started to take off and grow in really vibrant numbers, or are there other factors preventing that?

That's hard to say, but I think your idea is a good start. Let's give it 20 years and see where we're at.

I think the Bair Ranch got fairly burned up in the Grizzly Creek fire, wonder how it will affect the wildlife and sheep grazing there over the next few years...

Well, their sheep spend the majority of time on public land so probably not much change on the horizon. They only lost portions of 5 allotments, I believe, and most are areas that are not grazed anyway.