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Wildlife Officials Investigating Bighorn Sheep Population Decline

by KREX News Room
by Jordan Sherman

Story Created: Mar 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM MDT

ASPEN, Colo.- Colorado wildlife officials are trying to figure out why the Bighorn Sheep population living in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness has drastically fallen over the past 15 years.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently captured 10 Bighorn Rams and outfitted them with tracking collars to keep track of their herds.

Wildlife experts suspect the sheep are dying from a respiratory illness likely caused by a bacterial pneumonia.

The Aspen Times reports, two out of the three herds living in the area have been hit hard by the disease.

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