Photos: Bighorn sheep capture
About 30 Bighorn sheep were captured near Yuma on Saturday, Nov. 16, for relocation to the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The operation was coordinated by Arizona Game and Fish Dept.
Bighorn sheep capture
Arizona Game and Fish Department wildlife manager Stewart Kohnke has his hands full of a young bighorn captured from an area in the Trigo Mountins near the Yuma Proving Grounds and the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. Thirty sheep will be let go near Tucson.
Bighorn sheep capture
A “mugger” struggles to release his seat belt and control a bighorn ewe as a capture helicopter sets down at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge .
Bighorn sheep capture
The four-barreled net gun waits on the tail gate of a truck as the crew gets a briefing before the arrival of the helicopters during the relocation of dozen of so bighorn sheep off the Trigo Mountains near the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
Bighorn sheep capture
A handful of workers and volunteers wrestle to untangle a net after it was taken off a captured bighorn ewe during efforts to relocate a population of bighorn sheep off the Trigo Mountains near the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
Bighorn sheep capture
A bighorn ewe, blindfolded and still tangled in the capture net, is taken to a staging area for a medical screening, a DNA samples, tagging, a radio collar before being loaded onto a truck at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
Bighorn sheep capture
Workers scramble to cover a struggling bighorn ewe’s eyes as they try to get the net off her head during efforts to capture a dozen or so sheep from the Trigo Mountains near the Yuma Proving Grounds.
Bighorn sheep capture
Assistant State Veterinarian for the Arizona Department of Agriculture Chris McCarthy takes blood samples from a captured bighorn ewe, part of the bighorn sheep in the Trigo Mountains captured and staged for transfer at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
Bighorn sheep capture
A bighorn ram is hoisted into a cage on a truck in preparation for shipping over the weekend from the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Yuma, Ariz.
Bighorn sheep capture
Workers attempt to untangle a ewe from a capture net prior to getting blood samples, tagging and collaring her on the wildlife refuge.
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