[Mr Rogers]

I don't mind the private donations, but with only 1 ram left alive and the remaining ewes being picked off by one mountain lion after another, it is beginning to look like a $600,000 program to justify killing off the cougars!

Your hunting fees at work. I guess it could be worse...if Tucson or Pima County got hold of the cash, it would be lining the pockets of brother-in-laws or building bike trails to nowhere.

[Sacajaweau]

We’re stuck on stupid.

[Gamecock]

Bighorn sheep dying at the same time a plane full of people disappears?

This is really suspicious.

[tomkat]

Ya don't get those kinda results without an advanced degree.

</snort>

[Popman]

Bighorns had roamed the Catalinas until the 1990s. It's not known for certain what caused that herd to die off.

Gee...I think they have finally figured out that little mystery...

They were on the menu...

[Rodamala]

Looks like they need to have $600k literacy program for the bighorn sheep.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...dead bighorn sheep. Blood trails. Half-eaten carcasses. Mountain lions with stuffed bellies. There has to be a connection here, but I’m just not seeing it...

[HiJinx]

Sounds like a more liberal lion tag policy would be in order. Say, 2 or 3 per year instead of just one.

[the_Watchman]

A friend was telling me of a pair of hunters in his party who were confronted by a mountain lion near Williams, Arizona (west of Flagstaff). He said that they were perplexed on how to react since they thought they would be in trouble if they shot it. I asked why they didn’t fire a warning shot. My friend pointed out that they were bow hunting! :)

[SgtBob]

a $600,000 program to justify killing off the cougars!

HEY, NOW!!!?...I'm a cougar fan from way back....MrsSgtBob is now a cougar8^)>

[NormsRevenge]

Tastes just like chicken.. or is it spotted owl?

oh vell.

[smokingfrog]

burp!

[PLMerite]

“Out of the 6 relocated rams, 1 is still alive.”

There’s your prime suspect. He wants all the females for himself. Kind of like The Professor taking out all the others so he could be alone with Ginger and Mary Ann.

[bigbob]

are there Mooslims?

[lurk]

The picture would not look like this if the sheep were issued CCW permits and were carrying.

[Iron Munro]

All governments and bureaucracies are the same.
Chock full of armchair experts.

[Eagles6]

Offending lion? Apparently this is a crime akin to murder.

Actually it's called nature.

[x]

Maybe Alferd Packer is still around up in the mountains:

"You voracious man-eating son of a bitch, there was 31 Democrats in Pima County and you ate 16 of them. G_d d_mn you! I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, Dead, DEAD, as a warning against reducing the Democratic population of Pima County. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sentence you to Hell but the statutes forbid it."

[Gluteus Maximus]

Maybe they were afraid the sheep would took. A dead sheep tells no tales.

[OSHA]

Woolly nom-noms?

Big Kitteh PING