Photos: Bighorn sheep capture
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About 30 Bighorn sheep were captured near Yuma on Saturday, Nov. 16, for relocation to the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The operation was coordinated by Arizona Game and Fish Dept.
Arizona Game and Fish Department wildlife manager Stewart Kohnke has his hands full of a young bighorn captured from an area in the Trigo Mountins near the Yuma Proving Grounds and the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. Thirty sheep will be let go near Tucson.
- Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
The four-barreled net gun waits on the tail gate of a truck as the crew gets a briefing before the arrival of the helicopters during the relocation of dozen of so bighorn sheep off the Trigo Mountains near the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
A handful of workers and volunteers wrestle to untangle a net after it was taken off a captured bighorn ewe during efforts to relocate a population of bighorn sheep off the Trigo Mountains near the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
A bighorn ewe, blindfolded and still tangled in the capture net, is taken to a staging area for a medical screening, a DNA samples, tagging, a radio collar before being loaded onto a truck at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
Assistant State Veterinarian for the Arizona Department of Agriculture Chris McCarthy takes blood samples from a captured bighorn ewe, part of the bighorn sheep in the Trigo Mountains captured and staged for transfer at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
The four-barreled net gun waits on the tail gate of a truck as the crew gets a briefing before the arrival of the helicopters during the relocation of dozen of so bighorn sheep off the Trigo Mountains near the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
A handful of workers and volunteers wrestle to untangle a net after it was taken off a captured bighorn ewe during efforts to relocate a population of bighorn sheep off the Trigo Mountains near the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
A bighorn ewe, blindfolded and still tangled in the capture net, is taken to a staging area for a medical screening, a DNA samples, tagging, a radio collar before being loaded onto a truck at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
Assistant State Veterinarian for the Arizona Department of Agriculture Chris McCarthy takes blood samples from a captured bighorn ewe, part of the bighorn sheep in the Trigo Mountains captured and staged for transfer at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
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