A very interesting article from just a couple weeks ago, where
it was reported that a Mountain Lion was killed north of here
because it was killing Bighorn and deer. It had two fresh kill
Bighorn and a deer at the time. Read the entire article here:
http://www.azgfd.gov/artman/publish/article_762.shtml
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An AP article in the Salt Lake City publication Nov. 26, 2006
named "Desert News" quoted below:

YUMA, Ariz. -- The population of desert bighorn sheep on the
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge near Yuma in southwestern Arizona has
plummeted, a recently completed survey shows.

The survey estimated the sheep population at 390, down by 230 animals
from the last survey estimate of 620 in 2003 and fewer than half the
812 sheep estimated in 2000.

The numbers mean that the decline in bighorn sheep on the refuge seen
in 2003 continues and that those numbers may have reached or are close
to the lowest levels recorded.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials pointed to drought and possibly
predatory mountain lions as the likeliest contributors to the decline.

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