The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board on Oct. 26 approved the scope of work for three applications submitted by a Nevada-based company that asked for over $108,000 in state funds
Since she was 8 years old, Darby Northcott has been leading the band of 1,500 sheep through Ketchum’s streets for the signature event of The Trailing of the Sheep Festival.
Sheepherders have most likely faced danger from predators since sheep were first domesticated in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago. Such prey-predator relations are part and parcel of ecosystems.
What originally started in the 1990s as a local informal meeting over coffee between local sheep ranchers Diane and John Peavey and those interested in learning about the history, heritage,