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<blockquote data-quote="middleofnowhere" data-source="post: 1881491" data-attributes="member: 96793"><p>I am involved with Desert Bighorn Sheep conservation in California. My organization, the Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep (SCBS), tries to build or replace 2-3 wildlife drinkers a year. We have a group of volunteers that regularly visit and perform maintenance on 95 bighorn sheep drinkers (guzzlers). SCBS is a "conservation" organization, not a hunting org. We do work closely with the California Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation and I am a life member of that org and an annual member of the national Wild Sheep Foundation. </p><p></p><p>Here in California we had an increase of (10) Bighorn Sheep tags for 2019 and we had another increase for (1) more tag in 2020. I will say that CAWSF is directly responsible for funding many of our conservation projects, which translates to more sheep on the mountain. The $$ hunters spend at Sheep Show, buying raffle tickets and attending fund raiser banquets goes directly to helping the sheep.</p><p></p><p>One of our recent projects was on the Marine Corps Base at 29-Palms, we installed a new "rain catcher" drinker system. This system's entire cost was paid for by a grant from the California Chapter of WSF. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]188596[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]188597[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]188598[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]188599[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]188600[/ATTACH]</p><p>The trail camera photos were just emailed to me from the base biologist. The sheep have found the water and are drinking. As recently as ten years ago, aerial surveys of the mountains on base would show fewer than a half dozen sheep. Numbers are increasing since we have added water.</p><p></p><p>I think these organizations are critical and obviously I am a big fan of WSF. I will be getting my life membership this year and attending Sheep Show. I will likely be manning a booth at the entrance with a big plastic tank.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="middleofnowhere, post: 1881491, member: 96793"] I am involved with Desert Bighorn Sheep conservation in California. My organization, the Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep (SCBS), tries to build or replace 2-3 wildlife drinkers a year. We have a group of volunteers that regularly visit and perform maintenance on 95 bighorn sheep drinkers (guzzlers). SCBS is a “conservation“ organization, not a hunting org. We do work closely with the California Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation and I am a life member of that org and an annual member of the national Wild Sheep Foundation. Here in California we had an increase of (10) Bighorn Sheep tags for 2019 and we had another increase for (1) more tag in 2020. I will say that CAWSF is directly responsible for funding many of our conservation projects, which translates to more sheep on the mountain. The $$ hunters spend at Sheep Show, buying raffle tickets and attending fund raiser banquets goes directly to helping the sheep. One of our recent projects was on the Marine Corps Base at 29-Palms, we installed a new “rain catcher“ drinker system. This system’s entire cost was paid for by a grant from the California Chapter of WSF. [ATTACH type="full"]188596[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]188597[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]188598[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]188599[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]188600[/ATTACH] The trail camera photos were just emailed to me from the base biologist. The sheep have found the water and are drinking. As recently as ten years ago, aerial surveys of the mountains on base would show fewer than a half dozen sheep. Numbers are increasing since we have added water. I think these organizations are critical and obviously I am a big fan of WSF. I will be getting my life membership this year and attending Sheep Show. I will likely be manning a booth at the entrance with a big plastic tank. [/QUOTE]
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