A rider attached to an appropriations bill could set a precedent that would impact the health of bighorn sheep in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, a conservation group says. The Greater Yellowstone Coalition is asking its members to advocate against a rider attached by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to the Interior Appropriations bill. The rider counters a U.S. Forest Service decision to limit domestic sheep grazing in close proximity to bighorn sheep habitat because of disease concerns on the Payette National Forest. The rider also impacts the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho. The group is asking Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., chair of the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, to strip the rider from the bill...
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Naw, they've got it all wrong. Tell Senator Reed that at the Dubois Sheep Experiment Station all we want is littlehorn sheep.
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Too much liberal "caca" about domestic sheep passing on pneumonia to Bighorns. It's the overgrazing in the habitat areas that cause the snail to be accessible to any grazing animal. In areas where there has not been domestic sheep grazing for decades the Bighorn still get pneumonia because of the overstocking of their range by the game and fish departments.
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