Idaho Fish and Game will move bighorn sheep from Oregon to Jacks Creek
California bighorn sheep were first translocated back into the Jacks Creek area in the late 1960s, with more bighorns added in the 1980s to bolster the growing population.
Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Idaho Fish and Game, in collaboration with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Wild Sheep Foundation, and the Idaho and Oregon Chapters of the Wild Sheep Foundation, will begin moving California bighorn sheep from eastern Oregon to the Jacks Creek area of Owyhee County, Unit 41, in early January, launching a multi-year effort to rebuild the size and long-term resilience of a herd that has been declining in recent decades.
Sheep for the project will come from a healthy population near John Day, Ore. Thirty bighorn sheep will be translocated to the Jacks Creek population in early January.