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Bighorn sheep monitored for disease in Nevada
Page Last Updated: Friday January 8, 2010 6:43am PST
ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- Bighorn sheep in two mountain ranges in northeastern Nevada are being monitored after a number showed symptoms of pneumonia.Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Joe Doucette says agency biologists are keeping track of sheep in the East Humboldt Range and the northern half of the Ruby Mountains.
Doucette says the agency is concerned because the Rocky Mountain bighorns tend to congregate in the winter and any disease could more readily spread.
The East Humboldts are home to about 180 bighorns while the northern Rubies are home to about 160.
NDOW officials are urging the public to avoid such sheep wintering locations as Beverly Hills and Welcome outside Wells and Lamoille Canyon near Elko.
The agency is awaiting test results of samples taken from some sheep.
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