Big Horn Sheep leave Big Horns

Two helicopters, each carrying a pilot and crew, arrived at Cottonwood Canyon Friday morning. They greeted a crowd of 30-plus people including Game and Fish officials, students, reporters and other observers with an overhead fly-by before bobbing through the canyon to scour the sagebrush dotted topography for Big Horn sheep.



The Game and Fish carried out the capture as part of a transplant operation to re-locate a dozen sheep from south of Devil’s Canyon to the Seminoe Mountains near Rawlins.

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