Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep transported to their historical range
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
Bighorn sheep are skilled mountain climbers. But one group recently made it over the Sierra Nevada crest in record time.
As part of an ongoing effort to return endangered Sierra Nevada bighorns to more of their historical range, state and federal wildlife workers captured 14 of the animals in the Inyo National Forest and transported them by helicopter to the Big Arroyo area of Sequoia National Park on the range’s west side.
The four rams and 10 ewes, all but one of which was pregnant, were moved in late March to a part of the Sierra that bighorns have not occupied for more than a century.
