Colorado BHA Volunteer Signage and Bighorn Observation Program

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) members are privileged to hunt, fish and otherwise recreate on public lands in southwest Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, often in the Weminuche Wilderness area, some of the highest, wildest public lands habitat in the country.

During the summer of 2017 Colorado BHA Southwest Regional Director, Dan Parkinson (a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine), initiated a Volunteer Signage and Bighorn Observation Program on the Weminuche Wilderness landscape.

Weminuche bighorn sheep are listed by the U.S. Forest Service as a sensitive species, meaning there is concern for their long-term viability. The Weminuche bighorn population includes about 425 animals and is designated as a highly valued “Tier 1” population because it is believed to be one of only three herds statewide that have received little or no augmentation.

That means these are true native bighorns and, as such, they represent an important historic gene pool for the San Juan Mountains and state.

Domestic sheep carry strains of pneumonia that are devastating for bighorn sheep.

According to a joint issue statement of The Wildlife Society and the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians (released in March 2015): “It is now apparent that disease transmission …Read the Rest

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