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• Disease dooms Tieton bighorns near Yakima

  May 5, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C12 YAKIMA – Five or six years ago, the Tieton bighorn herd included nearly 200 sheep. Now it has fewer than 10 – the same ones drivers occasionally see licking U.S. …

• Landers: Record bids help all bighorn hunters

  February 21, 2013 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 A Utah hunter has raised the value of big-game hunting with a record bid of $480,000 for a special Montana bighorn sheep permit. Selling coveted bighorn tags to the rich …

• Landers: Record bids help all bighorn hunters

  February 20, 2013 in Sports A Utah hunter has raised the value of big-game hunting with a record bid of $480,000 for a special Montana bighorn sheep permit.

• Field reports: June fishing clinic geared to adults

  May 13, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C9 FISHING – Sign-ups are under way for 30 openings in a two-session basic fishing clinic for adults who haven’t been introduced to the sport. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Department …

• Washington bighorn sheep herds trapped to help others

  January 29, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C11 Bighorn sheep herds in north central Washington are getting new bloodlines. Bighorns near Yakima are being trapped this winter and relocated to boost other herds.

• Out & About: Tickets to upcoming Reel Rock Film Festival free

  October 9, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C14 OUTDEAL – Some of the year’s top climbing short films are coming to Spokane in a film tour – Reel Rock VI – Oct. 20, starting at 7 p.m. at …

• Bagging trophy wasn’t goal of man with coveted ram tag

  September 25, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 When Mandy Miles drew a coveted bighorn sheep tag for Idaho’s Unit 11, he decided he wanted three things. 1. Look for a nice “old” ram. 2

• Killing off sick bighorns aided herds, officials say

  July 4, 2011 in Region on Page A6 MISSOULA – A spring survey of bighorn sheep showed that efforts to prevent a pneumonia outbreak by killing the sick animals appeared to help more lambs survive, according to Montana … 1

• Bison Range has youthful feel in spring

  June 5, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 When it comes to the four seasons at the National Bison Range at Moiese, Mont., different people have different favorites, Pat Jamieson says. Some prefer summer, even though it can …

• Bighorn raffle tag winner scores big on a team effort

  December 12, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C12 At 68 years old, Jerry Barron is, in his words, “too damned old to be climbing up mountains in the cold and snow.” But he rose to the occasion this …

• Pneumonia chips away at bighorns

  November 14, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C13 Pneumonia continues to bedevil Montana’s bighorn sheep, with a herd near Anaconda becoming the latest victim of the epidemic. More than 300 wild bighorns lived in a 133-square-mile area of …

• Hard times hit area bighorns

  February 7, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C12 Bighorn sheep, among the most prized big-game animals in the West, are being killed by the hundreds this winter in Western Montana in a desperate effort to contain a disease …

• UI professor reasserts bighorn disease claims

  November 16, 2009 in City on Page A6 BOISE – A University of Idaho professor suspended from sheep research duties since June has repeated claims that wild bighorns don’t catch fatal diseases from domestic sheep, despite pledging not …

• Three charged after illegal bighorn hunt

  August 30, 2009 in City, Outdoors on Page B2 GREAT FALLS – A Whitehall, Mont., man who authorities say illegally guided a state undercover agent on a hunting trip that resulted in the killing of a huge Rocky Mountain …

• UI investigating researcher over bighorn study

  June 10, 2009 in City, Idaho MOSCOW, Idaho — The University of Idaho has opened an investigation into whether one its researchers suppressed information that appears to link bighorn sheep getting deadly diseases directly from domestic …

• Wildlife officials tracking sick bighorn

  June 1, 2009 in City on Page A10 RIGGINS, Idaho – The hunt is on for a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ram believed to be sick with pneumonia. It’s a race wildlife officials say could mean life and …

• It’s a noxious task, but someone’s got to control weeds

  May 28, 2009 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 It’s not good enough that most outdoors aficionados don’t care for noxious weeds. We need to hate them.