Wild Sheep Foundation

In over 47 years, the Wild Sheep Foundation has raised and directed more than $140 million “To Put and Keep Wild Sheep on the Mountain®” – with more than $92 million raised and directed to agencies from special permits and tags alone.  This funding has been used to support wild sheep transplants, telemetry studies, research, habitat enhancements (e.g., prescribed burning, water development, noxious weed control), predator management, education and a host of related programs. Trap and transplants conducted west-wide initially brought bighorn sheep from Alberta and British Columbia to western states resulting in a modern day wildlife success story. Since 1922, more than 21,600 wild sheep have been transplanted in over 1,460 discrete operations, in 15 states and two provinces.  Rocky Mountain, California and desert sheep numbering ~25,000 in the 1950's have been expanded three-fold to more than 85,000 today.