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Courtesy photo This file photo shows the 12 bighorn sheep that in the 1960s helped restart the population in Little and Big Jacks Creeks in southwest Idaho’s Owyhee Desert.

Courtesy photo This file photo shows the 12 bighorn sheep that in the 1960s helped restart the population in Little and Big Jacks Creeks in southwest Idaho’s Owyhee Desert.

April 19, 2018

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Sheep returned to Owyhees in 1960s now a strong population
April 19, 2018 1 a.m.

Sheep returned to Owyhees in 1960s now a strong population

Once plentiful when settlers arrived in what would become southwest Idaho, a rapid decline of bighorn sheep in the 1800s resulted in a near-extinct population in the first quarter of the 20th century.