cuerro viejo
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I’ll say it, the sandwiches are extremely overrated
If all the big money sheep tags are helping sheep herds should tag numbers be climbing significantly? I see them doing a much better job of putting sheep in trophy rooms not sheep on the mountain. Saw another posse ram online this week with all sort of people congratulating the killer. The truth is the ram was ridiculously visible and nothing about the hunt was difficult. Just a matter of spending big money on a tag to go kill it
I’m a huge fan of the sheep work kuiu has been helping with the past few years, all done without a single sheep being sold to the highest bidder
I’d say your post is just simply wrong and lacked the thought to actually check the sheep numbers of NM.
this herd (Jemez)was started with 45 sheep in 2014 relocated from Taos/wheeler after one of the largest Fires in NM history and 10 years later jemez area has over 200. I’d say that’s pretty big growth.
Almost ever desert sheep in NM has roots to the breeder facility in Redrock In the southwest corner of the state. I think they are getting close to 600plus sheep transplanted. id say that’s a lot of sheep
In 1978 there were only 700 Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep, and only 88 desert Bighorn sheep left in New Mexico.
Currently NM has 1800 Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep. There is now 1200 desert bighorn sheep in eight different desert mountain ranges in the southern part of the state
Jemez- Not sure how 0-200 isn’t a big deal in 10 years. Increase of 200
BHS from 1975- 700 head to 1800…. That’s an +-1100 head increase
DBHS1975 from 88 to 1200…..that’s a about a +-1100 head increase
If there wasn’t big money supporting these releases they would be a lot less sheep. In fact 97% of NM sheep conservation dollars come from non-residents.