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Utah Wild Sheep Foundation Mission Statement
The purpose of Utah Wild Sheep Foundation is to promote and enhance increasing populations of indigenous wild sheep to Utah, to safeguard against the decline or extinction of such species, and to fund programs for professional management of these populations, keeping all administrative costs to a minimum. We are vigorously involved in the conservation, propagation of Utah’s bighorn sheep, and intensive management of the remaining wild sheep populations and their habitats. The Foundation annually funds a wide variety of meaningful and essential projects with some major areas of consideration being; wildlife enhancement, management, the re-establishment of wild sheep, and sportsmen’s rights
Over $2M in Mission-Related Dollars
Helped grow Utah’s wild sheep population
From 500 to over 5,000
Message From the President
With the 2022 hunting season under full swing and success pictures being submitted, I can’t help but appreciate how far Sheep hunting in Utah has come and how much improved the trophy quality and hunt expectations are now versus just 10-15 years ago. In a State where a 160” Desert ram was top-end, a new potential State record ram was harvested this fall that is pushing the 180” mark. A 162” California ram was harvested last year and in 2019 a 194” Rocky was harvested on the Range Creek unit.
I credit the improved genetics and trophy quality to the transplant work that has taken place, and continues to take place, in our great State. This year we successfully established a Desert Bighorn sheep nursery herd from Nevada’s Muddy Mountains, one of the best trophy producing units the silver state has to offer. We also captured and released, as a supplemental transplant, Rockies from Arizona’s Eagle Creek unit to Antelope Island. This was the first time Rockies have been moved out of the State of Arizona and did I mention the Eagle Creek herd consistently produces 180” plus rams, not to mention the 2.5-year-old Rocky rams on Antelope Island are 30”x15”.
