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Bighorn herd north of Yellowstone slow to rebound from pneumonia
BRETT FRENCH 7 hrs ago
The Cinnabar herd of bighorn sheep that lives just north of Yellowstone National Park has been slow to recover from an outbreak of pneumonia in 2014.
?During the spring survey the numbers weren?t bad,? said Karen Loveless, a Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist in Livingston. ?But the lamb recruitment is not great. And we?re seeing that again this year. That?s discouraging.?
The outbreak of disease initially resulted in the deaths of 34 sheep out of a herd of 89, many of them rams. Because of the deaths FWP closed Hunting District 305 to bighorn sheep hunting...
Bighorn herd north of Yellowstone slow to rebound from pneumonia
BRETT FRENCH 7 hrs ago
The Cinnabar herd of bighorn sheep that lives just north of Yellowstone National Park has been slow to recover from an outbreak of pneumonia in 2014.
?During the spring survey the numbers weren?t bad,? said Karen Loveless, a Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist in Livingston. ?But the lamb recruitment is not great. And we?re seeing that again this year. That?s discouraging.?
The outbreak of disease initially resulted in the deaths of 34 sheep out of a herd of 89, many of them rams. Because of the deaths FWP closed Hunting District 305 to bighorn sheep hunting...