California bighorn sheep disease and population monitoring efforts in southeast Oregon continue.
Crews conducted capture and release work on Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Jan. 20, 2023, which is part of ongoing efforts with the @usfws Fish and Wildlife Service to increase the bighorn population there.
These efforts are part of a cooperative project among state and federal agencies, tribes, Oregon State University, and wild sheep nonprofits working together in the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada (ION) area. A total of ten sheep were sampled and collared at Hart Mountain: six ewes and four rams. The ION project received $172,000 in grant funding from the national @WildSheepFoundation Wild Sheep Foundation.
