Arizona’s wild sheep and Arizona Fish & Game Department
The state of Arizona was able to offer 44 sheep tags in 1984. In 2024, this number was 156.
This conservation success was made possible through the efforts of AZG&F, their dedicated employees, and funding from auction and raffle tags, as well as resident and non-resident license fees.
Conservation, at its core, is active management to ensure enduring wildlife abundance. In the case of game species, conservation ensures that harvest by sportsmen does not impact this abundance. On the contrary, the value sportsmen have for game and the opportunity to hunt results in growing populations, known as sustainable use.
For a high-demand, limited resource like wild sheep, conservation efforts are required that far exceed the few animals harvested annually. This disproportion from prioritizing the resource means opportunities will follow. In the long run, as conservationists, what we give for wild sheep is more valuable than what we take. Many factors make having a sheep tag in your pocket so special; this is one of them.
Thank you for supporting this raffle, and good luck!
Sincerely,
The Wild Sheep Foundation
About the Wild Sheep Foundation
The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF), based in Bozeman, Mont., was founded in 1977 by sportsmen and other wild sheep conservationists. WSF is the premier conservation funding advocate for wild sheep, having raised and expended more than $145 million, positively impacting these species through population and habitat enhancements, research and education, and conservation advocacy programs in North America, Europe, and Asia "To Put and Keep Wild Sheep On the Mountain”®. In North America, these and other efforts have increased bighorn sheep populations from historic lows in the 1950s-60s of 25,000 to more than 85,000 today. WSF has a membership of more than 11,000 worldwide.
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