Montana gets first statewide bighorn sheep plan. AP
Here is the plan:
Bighorn Sheep Conservation Strategy
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Ralph – there was a more in depth artilcle on the front page of the Chronicle this morning – covered more of the livestock side of this plan.
Thanks, so I just checked and the on-line version is the same short AP story.
And I checked MT FWP and nothing there.
I linked to the plan in the post.
Thanks Ken! I’m still in Montana
Here’s the Chronicle URL: http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2010/01/18/news/100sheep.txt.
The plan does give effective veto authority to ranchers over bighorn reintroductions.
Well, here’s another opportunity for Western Watersheds Project to shine.
RH