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MT sheep have landed in WY

I was on location the proposed day, but the chopper was sick and didn't leave the ground, so I searched sage-grouse winter habitat instead.

I stayed in the office the next day after the aircraft was ready to fly (EA's for gas ROW's is not as much fun), but another biologist from the office got a few pics.

Unloading
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Blind-folded and no one looking. :D
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Little blood work.
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Wyoming boys putting on some jewelry.
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I have some more, but you get the idea.

On another note, my sage-grouse pilot found lots of sage-grouse near this area. Identified winter range for sage-grouse in my area is weak at best, so today was good news. Located about 200 birds today and watched an eagle dining on a male grouse that was too slow. :mad:

Have a good weekend all.
 
Eagles have to eat, too. ;)

I'll hopefully get to do some work on a telemetry study this year to help map seasonal grouse distribution. Have you ever seen them sew a transmitter on a 2-day old chick?:eek:

Cool pics...
 
Looks like the same technique we used. Did you trap them from the chopper? We used a drop net after baiting them with hay.
 
All taken with net guns from the chopper. We don't have those tame sheep around here. ;) :D
 
We have an island that is used as a source for producing sheep for reintro's. Pretty cool. I like 'em stump broke.

They've been conditioning them to the net and feeding for over a year.
 
We had a picture show and explanation of this from Calvin Johnson who worked this little rodeo for the MTFWP for our Kiwanis program today. I didn't realize they sent 20 head to Wyo. and 20 head to Nodak.

Anyway he had some really cool pics also.

Nemont
 

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