~ Sportsmen working for the future of Nevada’s wildlife ~ wildlife Nevada’s of future the for ~ Sportsmen working NBU Journal . Volume 37 . Number1 1 TABLE of CONTENTS Volume 37 . Number 1 In the Field 8 ® Instagram Photos 12 2020 Guzzler Schedule 13 LA PALMOSA 2020 NBU Banquet Live Auction - Hunting Outfitter - 15 Phone: +521 811 916 4668 High Desert Montessori Thank You Note [email protected] 16 By Coach Laurel and the HDMS Archery Program Nevada Desert Snow Sheep? 19 By Scott Burch Anderson Reintroduction of Bighorn Sheep into the Lake Range 22 of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation By Larry Johnson Tribute to Rick Elmore 24 By Larry Johnson Remembering Rick 27 NDOW bighorn captures and translocations 28 in 2019 and 2020 By Mike Cox, NDOW Out with the old and in with the NEW! 30 By Andy McCormick Looking Back 32 By Tim Baugh Throwback Photos 34 NB Ewes 36 By Jennifer Cefalu Recipe By Kristy Crabtree 38 NBU Gratefully Acknowledges The Longest Day of Our Lives La Palmosa Outfitter 40 By Dylan Brock and Peyton Bertrand as a 39th Annual Banquet Sponsor Youth In the Field 2 NBU Journal . Volume 37 . Number 1 42 3 EDITOR’S LETTER The Ewes have been busy prepping for the banquet and putting together ladies raffle baskets. February held a new fan favorite event, BINGO! Thank you to Toby and the Little Waldorf Saloon for hosting NBU for an entertaining NBU Gratefully Acknowledges Legacy Sports night. One of the attendees, Kristy as a 39th Annual Banquet Sponsor Crabtree, won twice and was also kind enough to share another recipe for this journal issue. Her NBU Journal dishes are absolutely amazing, and is published I highly recommend you check out quarterly by: her newly designed website (www.nevadafoodies.com). Nevada Bighorns Can you believe it is guzzler Unlimited season? For those of you that join P.O. Box 21393 us on guzzler builds, wait until Reno, Nevada 89515-1393 you see the new barbecue trailer! Shout out to NBU directors Rocky A non-profit, tax-exempt and Caleb for doing a superb job organization incorporated of designing the trailer wrap. It under Nevada State Law. he 40th anniversary banquet looks phenomenal and I can’t wait to see is right around the corner! Cefalu grill some steaks in that bad boy! If Can you believe it? Your you haven’t come to a guzzler yet, this is Board of Directors NBU directors have been your year! Age range of volunteers varies Pat Pinjuv, President working tirelessly to bring from 2 years old to 90 years old! We have Tom Fennell, Vice President you another successful night quite the crew and there are always laughs Evan A. McQuirk, Secretary of fundraising and entertainment. This around the campfire. Thanks to our water Steve Field, Treasurer Tyear is special because it will mark 40 development committee (Rocky Hall, Pat Chris Cefalu years from the inception of NBU. We Reichman, and Allen Stanley) for working Steve Hall will have special memorabilia with our so hard with NDOW to make these builds Caleb Van Kirk 40th anniversary logo, so keep an eye happen. Check out the map in this issue Lydia Peri out during the event. You never know, to see where we will be building. Jim Puryear you may be the special winner of an Pat Reichman extravagant rifle with our logo engraved We said goodbye to two of our directors Greg Smith on the stock! Thank you again to all of over the last few months. Katie Frey and Allen Stanley our donors and volunteers. We are so Jake Chatelle recently stepped off the Joshua Vittori appreciative everyone’s enthusiasm. board and they will surely be missed! Big Mario Walther things are happening for both of them Dan Warren By now, you should be putting in for big though. Katie moved to Washington Paul Young game tags. Who will be the lucky few with her husband, Carl. Jake and his wife to draw a sheep tag!? This journal issue recently welcomed twins, so it is safe to has several photos of last season’s lucky say he will have his hands full! We wish Submission Dates: sheep hunters. Congratulations to those them both well, but we know they won’t of you that drew and also, how lucky for be far and we will continue to see them at Spring Issue: February 1st your friends and family who were able to future events. Summer Issue: May 1st join you in the experience. My photo this Fall Issue: August 1st time is of my 2019 Area 10 early buck. I hope you enjoy this journal issue. As Winter Issue: November 1st Every hunt is different, and this was a always, I love putting in as many photos very memorable hunt for me because of and hunt stories as possible. Thank you For more information on NBU the time spent with my boyfriend Mike. again for all the great content. Keep it call (775) 870-4094 or visit our website We didn’t have much time and I didn’t coming! http://NevadaBighornsUnlimited.org want to put pressure on us, so we went out and had a great time and I was happy with this buck! For me, it is about the experience and sometimes when life is busy, you have to make the most of it. Sometimes having a big hunt camp is the Lydia Peri way to go, and other times, it is the best Nevada Bighorns Unlimited having only your partner alongside you. Cover Photo by Victor Clark 4 NBU Journal . Volume 37 . Number 1 5 PROUD PARTNER OF PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE have the great honor of being involved with the NBU 40th year banquet. I can’t imagine what the original IT’S IN YOUR Inc. © 2014 Cabela’s group thought would become of the Nevada Bighorns Unlimited back in 1980 when it all began. People like Mitch IBesso, Jim Lathrop, Lewi Chatelle, Jim Jeffress and several others all had a vision that paved the way for the success of NBU. I spoke to Randy Venturacci regarding the financials for the first annual NBU Banquet. He believes after expenses for MORNINGTM COMMUTE. the actual barbecue which was held at the Lathrop Ranch IT’S IN YOUR NATURE. in Washoe Valley, they netted $8,500.00. That fortunately Let’s face it, hunting isn’t just something you do. It’s who you are. At Cabela’s, we feel the same way. is a far cry from the current banquets. We have been Please make sure to thank the original 1980 NBU board averaging over $500,000 gross for the last 10 years. We That’s why it’s in our nature to support you with thousands of experts, more than 50 years of members and all the others along the way for starting and grossed an amazing $925,126.00 last year. We netted close supporting such a spectacular wildlife organization. Continued experience and every last bit of expertise, so you can treasure this passion for the rest of your days. to $10,000,000 in 40 years. support from people like Jim Puyear, who currently sits on the board, Alan Means, Mike Daniels and Chuck Jeannes who Be mindful that it all goes back to the wildlife and habitat. The continue to attend the banquet. Dohn Matteoni, who attends RENO, NV • 775.829.4100 • CABELAS.COM /RENO monies are spent on scientific studies, capture and transplant, guzzlers and helps set up the banquet each year along with fire restoration, guzzlers (water collection systems) and Tony Zamboni. Big thank you to Dr. Dennis Wilson who does various other related wildlife and habitat causes. Our specific an incredible job of running the business and bank operation wild sheep population has benefited tremendously from at the banquet year in and year out. We also get participation these projects. We currently have close to 13,000 wild sheep from people like Larry Johnson who help with a myriad of in Nevada, only to be outdone by Alaska. Amazing to think wildlife issues. Gary Hull, who decorates each banquet with that Nevada is the driest state in the union. NBU Gratefully Acknowledges Cabela’s as a 39th Annual Banquet Sponsor a stunning array of trees and bushes, Kent Burroughs, Gary’s assistant, and Randy Venturacci who still sits on the NBU I continually hear hunting stories explaining how impressed Foundation Board. the lucky tag holder is with the game we have in Nevada. We are fortunate to be one of the few states in the country Thank you all past and present for making NBU one of the where the average tag holder age is lowering, and our total most notable non-profit wildlife organizations. number of hunters is expanding. Most other states are going 23285_NVBighorn_AD.indd 1 3/13/14 9:02 AM backwards. I believe that the NBU banquet, combined with the support we have for the Mason T Ortiz camp has dramatically Pat Pinjuv encouraged younger hunters and families into the outdoors. NBU President UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP! Tom and Tammi Czyz invite you to come see the new and continuing upgrades! 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