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Feature: The Hunt for A Dead Ram

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.

Charlie EbbersNovember 20, 2017bighorn sheep, New Mexico bighorn sheep, conservation, Boone and Crockett, Dead Ram, photography, wildlife biology

Enterprise: A story about President Obama, wildlife conservation funding and guns.

"So, as people bought out their local gun shops—many out of fear that they had to buy weapons now, before Obama could ban semiautomatic weapons or institute limits on ammunition and high-capacity magazines—one of the most important means the federal government uses to manage land and wildlife grew stronger. And even though Obama never succeeded in those efforts, gun sales continued to rise. In fact, Obama’s tenure has brought more money to state wildlife agencies than any other president and more than twice that of President George W. Bush."

Published with Outside Magazine in January 2017.

Charlie EbbersJanuary 19, 2017Pittman-Robertson Funds, Obama, Pittman Robertson, gun sales, wildlife conservation dollars, wildlife, conservation