1944 U.S. Forest Service - estimated there were 150 bighorn sheep 

 within the KNF. 



1945 U.S. Forest Service - estimated there were 150 bighorn sheep 

 within the KNF. 



1946 Couey (1950) - MDPG - estimated 150 bighorn sheep in the 

 Ural-Tweed population. 



U.S. Forest Service - estimated - 152 bighorn sheep within 

 the KNF. 



1947 U.S. Forest Service - estimated 80 bighorn sheep were found 

 within the Rexford District. No estimate was made for the 

 War land District. 



1948 Zajanc (1948) - MDFG - estimated there were 168 bighorn sheep 

 within the population. During winter surveys, he found an 

 average of .0071 sheep/acre for the 23,680 of winter range 

 (Brink 1941). 



1949 U.S. Forest Service - estimated 90 head on the Rexford Dis- 

 trict. No estimate was available for the Warland District. 



1950 Couey (1950) - Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Montana - 

 estimated there were approximately 125 sheep in the Ural- 

 Tweed herd and it had decreased in the previous fifty years. 

 Two rams were transplanted to the Gallatin area. Forty-two 

 sheep were observed on a MDFG aerial survey, and 5 sheep 

 were reported west of the Kootenai. 



1951 U.S. Forest Service - estimated 350 sheep within the Warland 

 District. No estimate was available for the Rexford District. 



Montana Department of Fish and Game - estimated 351 sheep in 

 the Kootenai Management Unit'* (KMU) . 



1952 U.S. Forest Service - estimated 315 sheep in the Rexford and 

 Warland districts. 



Montana Department of Fish and Game - estimated there were 390 

 sheep in the KMU. 



1953 Couvillion (1953) - MDFG - made an effort to re-identify the 

 summer range delineated by Brink (1941). Inspected approxi- 

 mately 1/3 of the range and observed only 5 sheep. 



U.S. Forest Service - estiiiated 410 bighorn sheep within the 

 KNF. 



The bighorn sheep transplant into the Kootenai Falls area was 

 initiated. 



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