{"id":2513,"date":"2016-02-28T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/?page_id=2513"},"modified":"2016-05-18T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:03:22","slug":"rocky-mountain-big-horn-sheep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/rocky-mountain-big-horn-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2513\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2513-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2513-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-2513-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2513-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-2513-0-0-0\" ><div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div 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class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>Current populations are estimated at 300 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. To remain healthy and viable, bighorn sheep need productive preferred forage, adequate thermal and security cover and limited disturbance and impediments on key ranges (e.g., winter\/lambing range, critical winter range, and migration corridors).<\/p>\n<p>The focus of management is on migration corridors, lambing grounds and winter range. Management for mule deer winter range provides adequate bighorn habitat in forested areas.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep are distributed across the Sub Region.<\/p>\n<p>General issues across the Sub Region will be addressed below, followed by management plans specific to individual populations.<\/p>\n<p><i>Please note the Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep map is not yet available<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/general-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2946 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/general-map.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/general-map.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/general-map-768x749.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/general-map-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Issues:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduction in the quality, quantity and distribution of essential habitat including productive preferred forage, separate summer and winter habitats, and thermal and security cover.<\/li>\n<li>Increased mortality caused by disease, increased predation, access- and fire-related displacement and disruption from key ranges, and impediments to movement between habitats and through migration corridors.<\/li>\n<li>Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep may be breeding with the California Big Horn Sheep population near Spence\u2019s Bridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Goals:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Viable and healthy populations of bighorn sheep, distinct from California Big Horn Sheep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2513-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2513-0-2-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_nav_menu panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-2513-0-2-0\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Wildlife<\/h3><ul id=\"menu-wildlife\" class=\"menu\"><li  class=\"menu-ungulates sf-dropdown menu-item-2518 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/\"><span>UNGULATES<\/span><\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu sf-dropdown-menu dropdown\">\n\t<li  class=\"menu-canadian-moose menu-item-2596 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/canadian-moose\/\"><span>Canadian Moose<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-shiras-moose menu-item-2603 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/shiras-moose\/\"><span>Shiras Moose<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-roosevelt-elk menu-item-2602 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/roosevelt-elk\/\"><span>Roosevelt Elk<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-rocky-mountain-elk menu-item-2601 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/rocky-mountain-elk\/\"><span>Rocky Mountain Elk<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-mountain-goat menu-item-2598 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/mountain-goat\/\"><span>Mountain Goat<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-california-big-horn-sheep menu-item-2595 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/california-big-horn-sheep\/\"><span>California Big Horn Sheep<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-rocky-mountain-big-horn-sheep menu-item-2600 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/rocky-mountain-big-horn-sheep\/\"><span>Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-mule-deer menu-item-2599 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/mule-deer\/\"><span>Mule Deer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-black-tailed-deer menu-item-2594 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/black-tailed-deer\/\"><span>Black-tailed Deer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-white-tailed-deer menu-item-2604 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/white-tailed-deer\/\"><span>White-tailed Deer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-mountain-caribou menu-item-2597 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/ungulates\/mountain-caribou\/\"><span>Mountain Caribou<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li  class=\"menu-fur-bearers sf-dropdown menu-item-2522 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/\"><span>FUR BEARERS<\/span><\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu sf-dropdown-menu dropdown\">\n\t<li  class=\"menu-lynx menu-item-2593 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/lynx\/\"><span>Lynx<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-bobcat menu-item-2592 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/bobcat\/\"><span>Bobcat<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-pine-marten menu-item-2591 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/pine-marten\/\"><span>Pine Marten<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-fisher menu-item-2590 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/fisher\/\"><span>Fisher<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-wolverine menu-item-2589 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/wolverine\/\"><span>Wolverine<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-hoary-marmot menu-item-2588 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/hoary-marmot\/\"><span>Hoary Marmot<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-north-american-beaver menu-item-2587 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/north-american-beaver\/\"><span>North American Beaver<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-american-red-squirrel menu-item-2754 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/american-red-squirrel\/\"><span>American Red Squirrel<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-north-american-badger menu-item-2993 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/north-american-badger\/\"><span>North American Badger<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-beaver menu-item-2996 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/fur-bearers\/beaver\/\"><span>Beaver<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li  class=\"menu-predators sf-dropdown menu-item-2523 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/predators\/\"><span>PREDATORS<\/span><\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu sf-dropdown-menu 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href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/\"><span>UPLAND BIRDS<\/span><\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu sf-dropdown-menu dropdown\">\n\t<li  class=\"menu-dusky-grouse menu-item-2757 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/dusky-grouse\/\"><span>Dusky Grouse<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-sooty-grouse menu-item-2760 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/sooty-grouse\/\"><span>Sooty Grouse<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-spruce-grouse menu-item-2763 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/spruce-grouse\/\"><span>Spruce Grouse<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-sharp-tailed-grouse menu-item-2766 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/sharp-tailed-grouse\/\"><span>Sharp-tailed Grouse<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-willow-ptarmigan menu-item-2769 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/willow-ptarmigan\/\"><span>Willow Ptarmigan<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-rock-ptarmigan menu-item-2772 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/rock-ptarmigan\/\"><span>Rock Ptarmigan<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-california-quail menu-item-2775 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/california-quail\/\"><span>California Quail<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-chukar-partridge menu-item-2778 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/chukar-partridge\/\"><span>Chukar Partridge<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-clarks-nutcracker menu-item-2782 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/upland-birds\/clarks-nutcracker\/\"><span>Clark\u2019s Nutcracker<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li  class=\"menu-birds-of-prey sf-dropdown menu-item-2521 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/birds-of-prey\/\"><span>BIRDS OF PREY<\/span><\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu sf-dropdown-menu dropdown\">\n\t<li  class=\"menu-golden-eagle menu-item-2786 menu-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lillooet.stewardship.foundation\/environmental-sections\/wildlife\/birds-of-prey\/golden-eagle\/\"><span>Golden Eagle<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t<li  class=\"menu-bald-eagle menu-item-2790 menu-item\"><a 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so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\"><!-- TITLE BAR --><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Objectives<\/th>\n<th>Management Direction\/Strategies<\/th>\n<th>Measures of Success\/Targets<\/th>\n<th>Intent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">1. Maintain or enhance forage, thermal and security forest cover within bighorn sheep winter\/lambing range areas shown on the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep map<\/td>\n<td>1.1 Designate the winter\/lambing range areas shown on the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep map as \u201cungulate winter range\u201d under the <em>Forest and Range <\/em><\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1.2 Incorporate First Nations\u2019 knowledge of bighorn sheep winter range, lambing areas and migration corridors into habitat information considered during map amendments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"4\">2. Improve forage opportunities for sheep throughout their presently identified winter\/lambing ranges (see Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep map) and those winter ranges identified through future inventories<\/td>\n<td>2.1 Manage livestock competition through directed management strategies in range use plans and identify poor condition, native bunchgrass range as areas to be improved<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"4\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"4\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.2 Develop and implement prescribed burn plans to remove competitive overstory vegetation, expose seeds to mineral soil and enhance understory development of beneficial shrubs (i.e. Saskatoon and willow species) in forested sites within sheep winter\/lambing ranges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.3 Consider available First Nations\u2019 knowledge of traditional use and prescribed burning when developing burn plans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.4 Manage grasslands within permanent range to ensure a minimum 85% of the plant communities are in late seral stage or in potential natural communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"6\">3. Limit disturbance or displacement from road access and density on bighorn sheep populations within their winter\/lambing range and known and possible migration corridors (See Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep map)<\/td>\n<td>3.1 Avoid construction of new roads within mapped winter\/lambing range, particularly on the benches along the Fraser River, and in the French Bar Creek, the upper Yalakom River and upper Noaxe Creek areas<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"6\">Adequate snow interception and security cover within winter range<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"4\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.2 If new roads cannot be located away from mapped winter\/lambing range, restrict road construction during lambing periods (April 15 \u2013 June 30). Such roads should be put to bed as soon as possible after industrial use<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.3 Minimize road development that bisects mapped known and possible migration corridors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.4 Schedule hauling and other concentrated industrial uses on roads bisecting mapped migration corridors outside peak migration periods (spring migration: May 20 \u2013 June 20: fall migration: August 31 \u2013 November 15)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.5 Maintain visual screening adjacent to roads within migration corridors<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">Visual screening provides important cover from predators and hunters for sheep<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.6 Implement appropriate deactivation, rehabilitation, regulated closures and graduated access measures for new road developments within mapped known and possible sheep migration corridors and winter\/lambing ranges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>4. Minimize opportunities for the transmission of disease between domestic sheep and bighorn sheep<\/td>\n<td>4.1 Do not issue Crown grazing tenures for domestic sheep grazing or domestic sheep grazing permits for silviculture purposes within 16 km of bighorn sheep habitat<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Objective is aimed at protecting against transmission of disease to wild sheep, primarily lung worm. Domestic sheep owners typically have health regimes in place for management of domestic sheep health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>5. Allow unimpeded movement of sheep through mapped winter\/lambing ranges and known sheep migration corridors (See Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep map)<\/td>\n<td>5.1 Do not permit replacement or new fencing across known sheep migration corridors or, if unavoidable, modify fences or fence to standards below:<br \/> Replacement or new livestock fencing should not exceed 42 inches (1.07m) in height and should be a minimum of 18 inches above the ground Use top rails on fences wherever sheep traffic is high (e.g., where trails cross fences) Use 39\u201d fence (1.0m) on drift fence where cattle pressure is low<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">6. Avoid alienation of Crown land for purposes that may disrupt bighorn sheep movement within mapped migration corridors or alienation of Crown land that may reduce mapped (known) critical winter range and known lambing range (see Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep map)<\/td>\n<td>6.1 Educate private landowners to consider the need for sheep movement in their applications for Crown land<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\">Alienation of Crown land within mapped bighorn sheep migration corridors is minimized<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.2 Where alienation cannot be avoided, identify and implement ways to minimize impacts to bighorn sheep migration or critical winter ranges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"3\">7. Continue to gather knowledge and information of sheep habitat, health and populations, including First Nations knowledge<\/td>\n<td>7.1 Continue inventory work to determine population numbers and habitat areas, as well as the key limiting factors on bighorn sheep populations (e.g., habitat, migration corridors, poaching, predation, etc.)<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"3\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"3\">Improved information about bighorn sheep habitat, migration corridors and populations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7.2 Consider inventory studies in adjacent areas that involve herds that migrate into this plan area - (e.g., \u2018Churn Creek Bighorn Sheep Study\u2019 Williams Lake Forest District)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7.3 Explore opportunities to involve First Nations in bighorn sheep studies and assessments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!-- ROW --><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Sections Current populations are estimated at 300 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. 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