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The document summarizes classifications, including subspecies history and recent recognition, and describes distribution across major mountain systems and Wyoming core herds. 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Wyoming BLM shows no special status, and Wyoming Game and Fish provides a rank of NSS4 (Bc), Tier II. Additional rankings include WYNDD G4, S2S3.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How is Bighorn Sheep classified and what subspecies recognition is described?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The text states Bighorn Sheep are classified as a big game animal in Wyoming. It explains that early classifications recognized multiple subspecies, then notes that recent classifications recognize three subspecies: Rocky Mountain Bighorn, Sierra Nevada Bighorn, and Desert Bighorn Sheep.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What are key habitat, phenology, and breeding characteristics in Wyoming?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Bighorn Sheep use semi-open, high-visibility habitats near rocky escape terrain, with alpine tundra in summer and lower elevation grassy benches in winter. 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Harvest is regulated by Chapter 9 of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Regulations 2.  \nNATURAL HISTORY  \nTaxonomy:  \nTwo species of wild sheep occur in North America; Dall’s Sheep (also called “thin horn sheep”; O. dalli) and Bighorn Sheep (O. canadensis) 3. Initial classification of Bighorn Sheep recognized 7 subspecies; Rocky Mountain Bighorn (O. c. canadensis), California Bighorn (O. c.  \ncaliforniana) and 4 subspecies of Desert Bighorn; Nelson’s (O. c. nelsoni), Mexican (O. c. mexicana), Peninsular (O. c. cremnobates), and Weem’s (O. c. weemsi) 4. Also recognized was Audubon’s Bighorn (O. c. auduboni), which may have occupied portions of eastern Wyoming before its extinction shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Recent classifications, however, only recognize 3 subspecies; Rocky Mountain Bighorn (O. c. canadensis), Sierra Nevada Bighorn (O. c. sierrae), and Desert Bighorn Sheep (O. c. nelsoni) 5. Two populations (both distant from Wyoming) are listed as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act; Sierra Nevada Bighorn and Peninsular Desert Bighorn, a distinct population segment of O. c. nelsoni 6, 7. In an effort to restore populations, nearly 1,500 separate translocations of Bighorn Sheep have been conducted throughout the United States and Canada 8. In Wyoming, almost all of the 74 translocations conducted to-date have involved sheep from the Whiskey Basin, Wyoming herd to other locations in Wyoming, although 6 translocations of O. c. canadensis from Oregon, Montana, and Idaho have been released in Wyoming as well.  \nDescription:  \nBighorn Sheep is named for the large, circular horns possessed by adult males (rams) . Females (ewes) also possess horns, but they are much smaller compared to those of males. Color patterns  \ninclude a brown body with a white muzzle, underbelly, and rump patch with white lining down the back of the hind legs. Adult rams weigh 175–300 lbs (80–136 kg), while adult ewes weigh 125–200 lbs (57–91 kg) 9. Ewes and small rams superficially resemble female Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and Elk (Cervus canadensis), and may be briefly confused with those species at a distance, but Bighorn Sheep is largely distinctive in appearance.  \nDistribution & Range:  \nBighorn Sheep occurs in portions ofthe Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, and throughout the Rocky Mountains from the Peace River in British Columbia south into northern Mexico 3. In Wyoming, the subspecies O. c. canadensis occurs in four core herds in the Absaroka, Teton, Gros Ventre, and Wind River mountain ranges. Ten smaller herds which have been augmented or re-established via transplants occur in the Wyoming, Snowy, Sierra Madre, and Laramie mountain ranges, as well as the Seminoe and Ferris Mountains, southern end of the Wind River Mountains, west slope of the Bighorn Mountains, the Black Hills, and Wind River Canyon. Dispersing individuals – especially young rams – are sometimes documented far from mountain population centers. In 2014 the estimated statewide winter population (including those residing in Yellowstone National Park) of Bighorn Sheep was 6,450 . The large core herds in the northwest corner of the state account for over 85% of Wyoming’s statewide total, and represent some of the largest meta-populations of Bighorn Sheep throughout its range. Still, the fragmented pattern of habitat and population segments in Wyoming is an important management consideration.  \nHabitat:  \nBighorn Sheep evolved in semi-open, high visibility habitats near roc","cbCaitpT9ua5piAI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitpT9ua5piAI","pdf",510767,"English","# Regulatory Status\n# Conservation Ranks\n# Status and Rank Comments\n# Natural History\n## Taxonomy\n## Description\n## Distribution & Range\n## Habitat\n## Phenology\n## Diet\n# Conservation Concerns","[{\"question\":\"What regulatory status and conservation ranks are listed for Bighorn Sheep in Wyoming?\",\"answer\":\"USFWS shows no special status, while USFS lists R2 and R4 as sensitive. Wyoming BLM shows no special status, and Wyoming Game and Fish provides a rank of NSS4 (Bc), Tier II. 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