Hanford big horns

[pat2bear]

Too bad. Wonder where they came from? Maybe wandered over from the canyon? https://www.king5.com/amp/article/life/animals/4-bighorn-sheep-lethally-removed-after-wandering-near-hanford-area/281-942b371a-ba21-47a6-8ede-ce773fca3e5e

[andrew_in_idaho]

Those things probably would have gone and repopulated saddle mountain. Silly that they killed them because they might have come in contact with domestics


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[Dan-o]

Those things probably would have gone and repopulated saddle mountain. Silly that they killed them because they might have come in contact with domestics


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Why silly?

If they wandered into one of the neighboring herds and caused a massive die off, we'd be screaming about wdfw incompetence.

[andrew_in_idaho]

Those things probably would have gone and repopulated saddle mountain. Silly that they killed them because they might have come in contact with domestics


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Why silly?

If they wandered into one of the neighboring herds and caused a massive die off, we'd be screaming about wdfw incompetence.

Take them and put them on some suitable bighorn habitat that doesn’t currently have any sheep, or just monitor them and see where they go, from Hanford they aren’t far from getting into the white bluffs or saddle mountains and they might just decide to stay and populate a new area at some point nature needs to be allowed to take its own course a little


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[jackelope]

Those things probably would have gone and repopulated saddle mountain. Silly that they killed them because they might have come in contact with domestics


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Why silly?

If they wandered into one of the neighboring herds and caused a massive die off, we'd be screaming about wdfw incompetence.

Take them and put them on some suitable bighorn habitat that doesn’t currently have any sheep, or just monitor them and see where they go, from Hanford they aren’t far from getting into the white bluffs or saddle mountains and they might just decide to stay and populate a new area at some point nature needs to be allowed to take its own course a little


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Did they come from an infected herd?

[andrew_in_idaho]

Those things probably would have gone and repopulated saddle mountain. Silly that they killed them because they might have come in contact with domestics


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Why silly?

If they wandered into one of the neighboring herds and caused a massive die off, we'd be screaming about wdfw incompetence.

Take them and put them on some suitable bighorn habitat that doesn’t currently have any sheep, or just monitor them and see where they go, from Hanford they aren’t far from getting into the white bluffs or saddle mountains and they might just decide to stay and populate a new area at some point nature needs to be allowed to take its own course a little


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Did they come from an infected herd?

They don’t know, and if you read the article they say there is a “chance” they’ve already made contact with domestic sheep so they decided to euthanize them


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[emac]

You think with just 4 they could of caught them and tested them.  I dont know about repopulating a area it looks like they are all juveniles to me.  Need a women to repopulate.

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[callturner]

WDFW wants to replace them with rainbow trout.

[andrew_in_idaho]

You think with just 4 they could of caught them and tested them.  I dont know about repopulating a area it looks like they are all juveniles to me.  Need a women to repopulate.

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Yea I didn’t see all the pics the 1st time, 4 young rams but still doesn’t seem they needed to eliminate them on a chance they may have made contact with domestic sheep


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[emac]

You think with just 4 they could of caught them and tested them.  I dont know about repopulating a area it looks like they are all juveniles to me.  Need a women to repopulate.

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Yea I didn’t see all the pics the 1st time, 4 young rams but still doesn’t seem they needed to eliminate them on a chance they may have made contact with domestic sheep


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I am with you on that. Like I said should of captured, tested and if negative placed somewhere they would be useful

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[full choke]

You think with just 4 they could of caught them and tested them.  I dont know about repopulating a area it looks like they are all juveniles to me.  Need a women to repopulate.

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That is so 2020... Get with the times!

[MtnMuley]

Not hard to figure out they either came from the Selah Butte herd or the southern Quilomeme herd. There's been sheep in years past on the south side of I90 at Vantage and also under the 82 overpass at Lmuma Ck. Not super far forneither to travel. Both herds have Movi issues. I would have loved to see them capture, test them,  and monitor them until the results came back. If they were clean, transplant them to another area. That takes a lot of equipment and time. Not sure they have that at the moment.

[Alan K]

Not hard to figure out they either came from the Selah Butte herd or the southern Quilomeme herd. There's been sheep in years past on the south side of I90 at Vantage and also under the 82 overpass at Lmuma Ck. Not super far forneither to travel. Both herds have Movi issues. I would have loved to see them capture, test them,  and monitor them until the results came back. If they were clean, transplant them to another area. That takes a lot of equipment and time. Not sure they have that at the moment.

 

Seems a waste to just cull them.

[NOCK NOCK]

Not something that interests me, but why not have a list of folks who would be willing to notch their OIL sheep tag on these kinds of deals? WDFW could even make a few bucks....we all know how they like the $$.

[millerwheeler]

Not something that interests me, but why not have a list of folks who would be willing to notch their OIL sheep tag on these kinds of deals? WDFW could even make a few bucks....we all know how they like the $$.

I wonder this too