Photos: Bighorns coming back to the Catalinas
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Bighorn sheep โ a species that was practically the symbol of the Catalina Mountains before the herd there died out in the 1990s โ will soon roam the range again.
Photo showing bighorn sheep at Dead Horse Canyon in the Catalina Mountains in 1977. The Game and Fish Department announced that 30 bighorn sheep will be re-introduced to the Pusch Ridge Wilderness in the Catalina Mountains this Fall. They plan to put more than 100 sheep there over the next few years. Photo by Joe Sheehey, Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society.
- Joe Sheehey, Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society
Game specialist, Jim Heffelfinger, left, of Tucson Game and Fish and Wildlife Manager Devin Skinner, right, look at the teeth of a Bighorn sheep after it was captured and transported to the staging area by a helicopter operated by Hawkins & Powers Aviation Inc. of Greybull, Wyoming.Game and Fish captured about 25-to 30 Bighorn Sheep from the Eagle Creek drainage just west of the Morenci mine in Eastern Arizona in order to help repopulate an area 40 miles to the north with Bighorn sheep. The operation took place on Tuesday, November, 19, 2002.
- Max Becherer / Arizona Daily Star
A desert bighorn sheep at the enclosure at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, outside Tucson, Ariz.
- A.E. Araiza/ Arizona Daily Star
Two bighorn sheep on a ridge overlooking Oro Valley. Photo by Eddie Cocking / Arizona Game and Fish 1992
- Eddie Cocking / Arizona Game and Fish 1992
Bighorn sheep at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
- BENJIE SANDERS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Desert bighorn sheep are declining in an area of the Tonto National Forest, Arizona Game and Fish reports. 1994 photo.
- TOM FOUST / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
BigHorn Sheep at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Dec. 18, 2000.
- RON MEDVESCEK / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Photo showing bighorn sheep at Dead Horse Canyon in the Catalina Mountains in 1977. The Game and Fish Department announced that 30 bighorn sheep will be re-introduced to the Pusch Ridge Wilderness in the Catalina Mountains this Fall. They plan to put more than 100 sheep there over the next few years. Photo by Joe Sheehey, Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society.
- Joe Sheehey, Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society
Game specialist, Jim Heffelfinger, left, of Tucson Game and Fish and Wildlife Manager Devin Skinner, right, look at the teeth of a Bighorn sheep after it was captured and transported to the staging area by a helicopter operated by Hawkins & Powers Aviation Inc. of Greybull, Wyoming.Game and Fish captured about 25-to 30 Bighorn Sheep from the Eagle Creek drainage just west of the Morenci mine in Eastern Arizona in order to help repopulate an area 40 miles to the north with Bighorn sheep. The operation took place on Tuesday, November, 19, 2002.
- Max Becherer / Arizona Daily Star
A couple of Bighorn Sheep stand on a rocky ledge of an open enclosure at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum on Tuesday, October 9, 2007, outside Tucson, Ariz.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
The 10 day old baby bighorn sheep sits with his mother at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum on May 8, 2007 in Tucson, Ariz.
- Dean Knuth / Arizona Daily Star
A 10-day-old desert bighorn ram lamb stands protected by its mother and other bighorns at the Desert Museum near Tucson, Arizona on Monday May 5, 2003.
- MAX BECHERER / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
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