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Bighorn Sheep
21 Aug Tracks and scat between Titus Canyon Rd and Owl Spring,
197A, including a concentration in wash about 3/4 mile
N of spring. Sign absent at Spring - could they be
frightened off by airplane wreck?
22 Aug Tracks and scat en route to Willow Spring 198; trails
around spring. Also tracks and scat around Buffalo Spring
17A. Not abundant, but conspicuous.
- Ram seen near Upper Leadfield Spring 1500 hrs.
- much sign around Epicadus Spring 208B and Klare
Spring 205
23 Aug A few tracks and scat in wash approaching Cortezers
Spring 194.
7 Sept. .5 mi E of Klare Spring along Titus Canyon Rd. Found
a dead ~5 year old ewe. Saw ram running along
wash bank, stopped to watch it. Bob Winkler spotted
corpse of ewe at or near place where lamb started.
It was at the bottom of a rocky 10 foot embankment.
Redfooted blood was coming from nose and mouth.
No external injuries visible, no obvious broken bones.
Limbs and neck were soft and flexible. She was
somewhat bloated and beginning to smell, attracting
some flies and a sexton beetle. Reported this
to C. Douglas, who reported it to Pete Sanchez, who
said that another dead animal with similar
appearance had been found recently in another
part of the movement. I suspected pneumonia as
cause of death. Pete concurred. Kathy Hamilton
reported much coupling among sheep at Quartz
Spring this weekend.