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To promote and enhance increasing populations of indigenous wild sheep in Alberta through the funding of programs that support responsible wildlife management, conservation education, youth involvement and the preservation of our hunting heritage.
Wild Sheep Foundation Alberta was started in 1999 and is a proud member of the National Wild Sheep Foundation. WSFA is a member-driven organization that connects hunting guides and outfitters, wildlife researchers, habitat conservationists, sportsmen and women, and the general public. Our two major fundraising events take place in the spring in the communities of Red Deer and Edson Alberta. With continued downsizing of government agencies, more onus is being placed on conservation organizations to initiate, manage and fund wildlife and habitat enhancement programs. Past issues of the WSFA newsletter are posted for your reading enjoyment. Check back often as we update our photo gallery on a regular basis. Becoming a member of Wild Sheep Foundation Alberta is an opportunity to be involved in an organization dedicated to the promotion and funding of sound wildlife management practices. Please note that in no way does WSFA necessarily endorse views and opinions expressed on these outside links, as those views are strictly those of the site owners. Your Board would like to hear from you, and listen to any suggestions or ideas you might want to run by them.
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Industry News
From time to time, we will post items of interest to our members and the general public. If you have something you would like to share here, please send us an e-mail.

We hope you will enjoy the articles that appear here.

Wildlife Officials Airlift Sheep To Manage Numbers - February 2012
New York hunter paid $300,000 for this year's Montana special auction license - February 2012
Wild Sheep Society calls for stiffer penalties for poachers in BC - December 2011
Wild Sheep Foundation Helps Reintroduce Desert Bighorns - December 2011
Big horned sheep hunters in crosshairs of B.C. conservation officers - December 2011
Pneumonia found in bighorn sheep near Corwin Springs - December 2011
Biologists use helicopter to collar sheep - December 2011
Big money bill could restrict bighorn management - November 2011
Pack goats now prohibited in parts of Shoshone National Forest to protect bighorn sheep - November 2011
Sheep plan spells trouble for bighorns - November 2011
Nevada Moves 235 Sheep! - October 2011
Bighorn sheep to be re-introduced to Virginia Range - October 2011
Vaccine for bighorn sheep still 10 years away - October 2011
Group tries to stop bighorn sheep rider - October 2011
Vaccine is no Silver Bullet for Big Horn Sheep - October 2011
Bighorn Sheep Dialogue, Idaho Public Television - October 2011
How Climate Change May Shrink Species - October 2011
Mingling populations will kill wild sheep - October 2011
Alberta Finance Minister says mining proposal should wait - January 2011
Wild Sheep Foundation to auction 33 special permits - January 2011
Pneumonia persisting in Anaconda Montana Bighorns - September 2010
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Status Report - Summer 2010
Bighorn Sheep Transplant for Ram Mountain - Update - December 2005
Poachers take Banff Bighorn - November 2004
Bighorn Sheep Transplant for Ram Mountain - October 2004

News from the Wild Sheep Foundation

Rocky Mountain bighorns inhabit the mountains from Canada south to New Mexico. They are relatives of goats, and have balance-aiding split hooves and rough hoof bottoms for natural grip.
Bighorns are the largest of all North American wild sheep. Adult rams weigh up to 135 kgs (300 pounds), but adult ewes are much smaller, averaging 70 kgs (150 lbs).

Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet only to mate. Rams live in bachelor groups and females live in herds with other females and their young rams.
Bighorn sheep are brown to grayish brown in colour, with light underparts and an obvious, light rump patch. Muzzle is white.

Fighting for dominance or mating rights, males face each other, rear up on their hind legs, and hurl themselves at each other in charges of some 20 miles (32 kilometers) an hour.
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