At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were between 1.5 million to two million bighorn sheep in North America. Today, there are less than 70,000.
These beautiful sheep were once widespread throughout western North America. By the 1920’s, bighorn sheep were eliminated from Washington, Oregon, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Mexico. Today, populations have been re-established through transplanting sheep from healthy populations into vacant places.Hunting, loss of food from livestock grazing and disease from domestic livestock have devastated bighorn sheep populations.
Let's hope that these wonderful creatures will again roam freely in the places that they used to belong.
"O Lord, You preserve both man and beast." Psalm 36:6
Blessings,
Sandra Reeves Cutrer
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