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In 2012 I drew a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep tag in Utah's Rattlesnake Unit (since been re-named to book cliff south). It was the most fun hunt I have ever been on, I spent every weekend for six months scouting the area with my nephew and several friends.
In that time I was able to find at least 60 to 70 mature Rams, ewe's,lamb's and adolescent rams well past the hundred mark.
Last week I returned to the area to help a friend that had a Range Creek tag, for those not familiar. the Range Creek is basically the west side of the Green River corridor and the Rattlesnake (Book Cliff south)is the east side. I was shocked and saddened by what I saw. Numbers of sheep are way down on the Range Creek unit. hard to put a number on it but I would guess it to be less than half of what it was three years ago. The really sad thing is I never saw a living creature let alone a sheep on the east side of the Green River corridor, there may or may not still be some sheep further east in the unit but in the heart of the unit it is sheep genocide.
In my opinion the Utah DNR needs to shut down the unit entirely until the herd can be re-established and cut the number of tags in the Range Creek unit by 75% until the unit rebounds.
In that time I was able to find at least 60 to 70 mature Rams, ewe's,lamb's and adolescent rams well past the hundred mark.
Last week I returned to the area to help a friend that had a Range Creek tag, for those not familiar. the Range Creek is basically the west side of the Green River corridor and the Rattlesnake (Book Cliff south)is the east side. I was shocked and saddened by what I saw. Numbers of sheep are way down on the Range Creek unit. hard to put a number on it but I would guess it to be less than half of what it was three years ago. The really sad thing is I never saw a living creature let alone a sheep on the east side of the Green River corridor, there may or may not still be some sheep further east in the unit but in the heart of the unit it is sheep genocide.
In my opinion the Utah DNR needs to shut down the unit entirely until the herd can be re-established and cut the number of tags in the Range Creek unit by 75% until the unit rebounds.