Bighorns had been missing from the Cochiti Canyon area since the 1880s, and a lot of people and agencies have been working to get them back since around 2001. The first of three translocations started in 2014. The last one was in March 2017 when the state added 344 more bighorns. Rominger and I hatched a plan to go and check in to see how things were going with the budding herd. I met up with at the New Mexico Game Fish complex in Santa Fe, and then he pointed the truck west towards the canyon and New Mexico’s Jemez herd.
Published with Fair Chase magazine for their winter 2017 edition.
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