AR-News: (US WY) Bighorn hang tough in area

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By BUZZY HASSRICK 
The encroachment of bushes and trees into grasslands is reducing the quality 
of bighorn sheep habitat.
Controlled burns could reverse that trend, says Kevin Hurley, Cody regional 
wildlife coordinator for the Game and Fish Department.
Along with that treatment, he is promoting the continued switch of hunting 
rules to any age ram. He also says bighorns face problems not from wolves but 
from mingling with domestic sheep.
Hurley spoke Thursday, March 11, at a Meadowlark Audubon meeting in Powell.
As a graduate student, Hurley spent four years studying bighorns in the Cody 
area. After 16 years as a G&F district biologist in Thermopolis, Hurley moved 
last July to Cody as the supervisor of G&F biologists in the Big Horn Basin.



full story:

http://www.codyenterprise.com/articles/2004/03/22/sports/sports2.txt 
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