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Wellstone ruled

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1. Wow,Bighorn have been relocated almost yearly

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed May 30, 2018, 11:18 PM

May 2018

from Washington County to the Escalanti and towards Moab. This drives the hand full Sheep Ranchers nuts. About 15 years ago,the Eastern part of Utah lost their massive Bighorn herds due to a Virus transferred from domestic Sheep to the Bighorn sheep via bacteria left on grass stubble on open range grassing land.

Same players two years ago got the BLM to round up hundreds of wild Horses in the Hamlin Valley in order for the so called Cattle Ranchers and the couple of Sheep ranchers could over Graze the Range land with their cattle and sheep.

Always a method to Southern Utah so called Ranchers madness.

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