Ep. 132: Sheep on the Mountain

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Bozeman, MT- Steven Rinella talks with Gray Thornton, Garrett Long, and Clay Brewer of the Wild Sheep Foundation, along with Scott Peckham of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects Discussed: Wolves, lynx, eagles, and other things that can be hell on wild sheep; thick and thin (horns, that is); the historic decline of wild sheep everywhere, including Texas; auto-immune diseases in sheep and lessons learned; wild sheep vs. the wool industry; wildlife terrorism; governor's tags, auction tags, and regular tags; a tribal perspective on destroying wild game; are you an a-hole for owning llamas; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely vote bitten in my case
0:14.8	underwear list.
0:15.8	You can't predict anything.
0:19.8	Alright, I want to get to I want to do all the introductions and explain where we're at.
0:29.3	The first of a quick question is based off a painting that I was ran into in the entryway
0:35.8	of the Wild Cheap Foundation.
0:38.8	Do wolves get after big horns?
0:40.2	They do.
0:41.4	I think mountain line and clay mountain line probably a little bit more of a problem certainly
0:47.6	in the lower 48, but yeah wolves definitely into thin horn habitat and big time up in
0:53.5	BC and Alberta.
0:54.5	You bet.
0:55.5	It just seems like they I don't mean it just feels like a little bit out of their like
1:00.3	that kind of country seems a little bit out of their area of expertise, but they've
1:03.4	hit them in the winter or what?
1:05.3	The big horn like down here in the lower 48 in the winter.
1:08.6	Well, they'll hit them different times of the year, but yeah, absolutely further south
1:13.4	desert big horns.
1:14.4	You've as great just referenced mountain lines or a little bit tougher tougher on sheep than
1:20.0	wolves.
1:21.0	Yeah, it's a tough place to make a living.
1:25.6	Have there been cases where Mexican gray wolves have killed desert big horns?
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