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Read about Matt Lentsch’s HA-12 Archery hunt Article on page 25 Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation e RAMPAGE Fall 2018 AND SUPER TAG TRIFECTA 2016 Super Tag bighorn sheep Winner Jeff Campagna THE ULTIMATE Hunting Adventure APPLY ONLINE: WGFD.WYO.GOV/RAMPAGE Super Tag tickets: $10 Super Tag Trifecta: $30 WYOMING’S SUPER TAG RAFFLE OFFERS 10 SPECIES AND 11 CHANCES TO WIN KUIU gear sponsorship for Trifecta, bighorn sheep, elk, mountain goat, and moose winners 2017 Super Tag Trifecta Deadline to apply is July 1, 2019 winner Zack Deberard Rae winners must purchase any applicable licenses and/or stamps before hunting. Made possible by the Wyoming Legislature PAGE 1 e RAMPAGE Features Fall 2018 AND SUPER TAG TRIFECTA “My Wyoming Sheep Safaris” by Freddie Goetz Read about the changes that LM and Ron Ball award winner, Freddie Goetz 2016 Super Tag bighorn Board of Directors: has witnessed in our herds during his annual trips to sheep country. sheep Winner Jeff Campagna Kurt Eisenach-President Zachary McDermott-VP Joni Miller-Treasurer “A Trip to Wicked River” Scott Butler-Secretary Join three Life Members on a dream hunt in British Columbia Warren Youmans with our long time supporter, Wicked River Outtters. Vacant James Owens Ryan Amundson “My Arm Pit Ram” by Matt Lensch Jerry Galles An archery hunt in HA-12 yields a state record ram, 186! Greg Pope Mick Mickelsen “Final Ram” by Eric Johnson THE James Rinehart Eric nishes his FNAWS slam with Josh Martoglio in HA-5 ULTIMATE John W. Harris Steve Kilpatrick-Executive “Mo’s Ram Hunt” by Mo O’Leary Director Mo’s dream hunt in HA-7 Contact us at: [email protected] “My Wyoming Bighorn” by Kirstie Ennis or by phone: (307)213-0998 A whole bunch of WYO Sheep Hunting diehards team up to make Kirstie’s dream a reality . Wyoming WSF Board & Hunting Adventure Membership Meetings “Hunting, Good Friends and Campres” Wyoming WSF holds its winter board membership meeting on by Marcie Mangold the rst Saturday of December and summer convention/ “2 1/2 Mile High Ram” Mark Wells board/membership meeting the Mark goes to the top of the Wiinds to nd his HA-8 Trophy. APPLY ONLINE: WGFD.WYO.GOV/RAMPAGE rst Saturday in June. Details and locations are listed in the Calendar of Events, and on line at: Super Tag tickets: $10 www.wyomingwildsheep.org. “Worth the Wait” by Darren Rhea Super Tag Trifecta: $30 Funding requests for consideration Aer 28 years of waiting, Darren hunts the Winds at the winter board meeting are due no later than Nov. 1. Funding WYOMING’S SUPER TAG RAFFLE OFFERS requests for consideration at Address Changes Advertising Rates the summer board meeting Full-Page $250 10 SPECIES AND 11 CHANCES TO WIN are due no later than May 1. e Grant-In-Aid request form is Become a member to receive 1/2-Page $150 available on the Wyoming WSF your own copy of the RamPage. 1/4-Page $70 KUIU gear sponsorship for Trifecta, bighorn sheep, Dues are $25 per year or $500 for website: www.wyomingwildsheep. 1/8-Page $50 elk, mountain goat, and moose winners org. a Life Membership. Subscribe at: Contact address: https://www.wyomingwildsheep. Donations netting WY- Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation org/store. aspx 2017 Super Tag Trifecta Deadline to apply is July 1, 2019 WSF >$500 entitle donor P.O. Box 666 to a free 1/4-page ad in the winner Zack Deberard Rae winners must purchase any applicable licenses and/or Cody, WY 82414 Please send address changes to: stamps before hunting. Made possible by the Wyoming Legislature E-mail: info@ [email protected] next 2 issues of e Rampage. Ads wyomingwildsheep.org or by phone at (307) 213-0998 must be received in camera ready format by 09/25 & 3/5!! PAGE 2 20182019 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Nov 30-Dec 1, 2018 Winter Meeting Lander, WY February 7-9, 2019 9 WSF Banquet/Convention Reno, NV May 17-18, 2019 WSF Chapter & Aliates Summit Las Vegas, NV May 31-June 1, 2019 Annual Convention Casper, WY June 20-21, 2019 533 Bob Meduna Wyoming Big Horn Sheep Summit 534 Kevin Cross Burgess Junction, WY 535 Kyle VanValkenburg 536 Candy McDermott 537 Bill Durnal Wyoming WSF would like to thank, and recognize, Life Members 538 Bralli Cliord who have signed up since the Spring 2018 RamPage was published. 539 Jo Ellen Butler A complete listing of WY-WSF Life Members is available for viewing 540 Ron Nading, Jr on the WY-WSF web page, under the “Life Members” tab: Https://www.wyomingwildsheep.org/lifemembers.asp 541 Rocky Yardas If you would be interested in signing up or upgrading to Life 542 Brodie Fackler Member status with WY-WSF, please visit our store or membership 543 Miles Fortner pages on the website. A $500, one-time payment (or $100 down, with 544 Leah Fortner quarterly $100 payments), invests in Wyoming’s bighorns, plus gets 545 Sara Harris you or someone you know a high-quality wall plaque and name tag. 546 Barry King We thank all of our past, current, and future Life Members!! 547 Colton Sasser Dear Member; To save printing costs we send 548 Connor Shatzer one copy per address. If you would like to receive 549 Addison Youmans multiple copies, please contact Dean DiJenno at 550 Logan Alexander (307) 213-0998 or [email protected] 551 Travis Jenson 552 Chadd Hartwig 91st Blast from the Past - Fritz Meyer on Dixon from 1988 PAGE 3 9 1st 9 PAGE 4 Why Do We Conserve Bighorns? I oen ask, “Why do Wyoming year. Or, one can look at it and memories in the mountains Wild Sheep Foundation members another way and say it costs warms your heart. Moreover, you spend a considerable amount of $110K-$137K to raise a 10-year- know your time spent conserving our time and nancial resources old harvested ram. Sheep are like wild sheep will someday enrich on bighorns, and all wildlife some kids – high maintenance. the lives of your kids, grandkids, for that matter?”. Well, I think But, worth every penny. nieces, nephews and friends who it’s because we don’t know any Many, if not most of you, have will someday be on a mountain that dierent. It’s just part of life here already harvested a ram, so why do still harbors wild sheep. Spending in the West. Simple – you like you keep giving back? Is it because a portion of your precious time it, it needs help, you help pay you feel guilty since your tag cost a conserving wild sheep will provide for it. We don’t believe in free fraction of the management costs them with similar memories. rides. We love our wildlife, it’s for that animal? No. I’m betting an important part of our lives, it’s because of a much deeper like rodeos and trucks, and we passion and internal fabric. We treasure Bighorns are willing to pay for it. Good old You have instinctual general because it’s just who we are western culture and values prevail. appreciation for nature. Yep, those - despite the costs. Without Well, pay for it, you certainly gut feelings are worth ghting do. Just look at the Wy Wild for. Moreover, wild landscapes them, our wild country Sheep web site - https://www. and wildlife are the core of your is less wild, our minds wyomingwildsheep.org/grants. internal fabric – “a way of life”. less imaginative, future asp. You raise and spend $100 – You treasure a glimpse of the 140K each year to “put and keep elusive bighorn. You value gazing generations lacking. at’s KIDS and WILD SHEEP on the at a hypnotic rock infested, cli why we conserve bighorns. mountain”. In addition, via the dominated mountain landscape Wyoming Governors Big Game and envisioning Bighorns that have License Coalition, the revenue mesmerized you over the years. Or, from 5 Governor’s bighorn tags maybe you simply know they live sold around the nation (over there. Images of vibrant frolicking $450K in 2018), is spent annually young lambs, motherly ewes and on Wyoming’s majestic bighorns. stately rams making a living in Your Wyoming Game and Fish unforgiving landscapes are forever Department estimates the bighorn imprinted in your mind. You only On behalf of Wyoming’s KIDS and sheep program to cost about take those and other memories to WILD SHEEP, the WY-WSF sincerely $2.2M (2017). License sales of your death bed, no trucks or smart appreciates the deep visceral passion and about 200 tags/year brings in a phones. You are keenly aware. support of its members. ank you. smidgen of the costs - about $180K. You know that Bighorns, while Another $1.7M is brought in from appearing all rugged and tu, application fees, conservation are wimps when it comes to stamp revenue, federal/other coexisting with humans– only 6% grants, general funds ($349,933), of the historic population in the teve and interest earned on Department western US and Canada remains. cash balances. Yep, that leaves ey are a delicate species. ey a shortfall of around half a are the “canary in the mine” for S million that YOU help cover. a whole suite of wildlife species. Simple math indicates that “we” You know that If they vanish, are spending around $11,000 others are soon to follow. per tag or $13,750 per harvested In the end, all one really has is bighorn in management costs/ time and memories. Your time PAGE 5 eort directed towards kids we opening on the board.