On a December night in 1987, the 6-year-old bighorn ram at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum was killed by someone who wanted his trophy horns. It was a senseless killing that was a tremendous loss for the museum as well as the community. The ram had been at the museum for almost all of his life.
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1985 Star photo
The bighorn ram that was killed in 1987.
The pair of sheep that lived in the enclosure in 1987, had come to the museum from the Chocolate and Plomosa mountain ranges near the Arizona-California border. They had two offspring both males and at the time of the ram’s death the ewe was expecting.
A 38-year-old California man was arrested for the slaughtering of the ram. Although he expressed regret for his actions, he said at the time “I had this truly cockeyed notion that it would make a good trophy.” He was sentenced to five-years in prison and an $8,000 fine.
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