Associated Press reports:
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – State wildlife officials have killed four bighorn sheep after they mixed with domestic sheep south of Cascade.
The four female sheep were part of a group of 25 bighorns that were moved in December from the Missouri River Breaks to a hunting district between Cascade and Helena.
By mid-January, the four ewes were found 20 miles away from their release site and mixing with domestic sheep. The sheep were killed last Wednesday.
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Region 4 Supervisor Gary Bertelloti said pneumonia can cause a large die-off in a bighorn herd and, in some cases, the herds don't recover.
Source: The Lewistown Tribune
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