Researches utilized a helicopter to capture and transport sheep from the East Fork and Skalkaho herds for pathogen testing and to fit the animals with GPS collars.
Researches utilized a helicopter to capture and transport sheep from the East Fork and Skalkaho herds for pathogen testing and to fit the animals with GPS collars.
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If elk could talk, four of them near Aspen would have quite the story to tell their herdmates about what they experienced Friday morning.
There, each one of them was, minding its own business, when in swooped this noisy, airborne contraption, from which a net was shot its way. Before the elk knew it, it was being hobbled, blindfolded, and wrapped in a sling, to be hauled off dangling beneath a helicopter to a location where humans awaited to sedate it and give it what amounted to a quick physical in the field.
The elk was then released, still a bit dazed and confused by its experience, and began making it way back to its herd, with three of the four wearing newly placed collars on their necks.
BILLINGS, Mont. After scattering like wildfire in a gust of wind, 49 bighorn sheep have settled in to their new home in the Little Belt Mountains. “One ewe went 24 miles north on the day of the release, turned around and came back,” said Jay Kolbe, wildlife biologist for the Montana Department of Fish, […]