Bighorn Sheep - Mason, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 30° 45.814 W 099° 14.751
14R E 476471 N 3403425
Advertisement for the Wildlife Ranch which is a hunting supply store.
Waymark Code: WMY1YM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2018
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Texas Parks and Wildlife
In the late 1800s, wildlife scientists estimate as many as 1,500 bighorn sheep roamed the mountains of the Trans-Pecos. Bighorn numbers dwindled to about 500 in 1903 due to unregulated hunting and diseases transmitted from domestic and exotic livestock. By the 1960s, they were gone from Texas.