CALLING ALL SHEEP COUNTERS!

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We hope you’re able to join us for the 49th Annual Bighorn Sheep Count at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park! And if you know of anyone who might be interested in participating please forward them this email (everyone has been Bcced so that email address are not made public). Any and all inquiries can be sent to AB.Sheepcount@parks.ca.gov.

The orientation, mandatory for all first-time counters and highly recommended for veterans, will be conducted at the University of California, Irvine Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center (located at 401 Tilting T Drive, Borrego Springs, CA, 92004) on Saturday, June 22th from 9AM-2PM. We know many of you have counted bighorn for years, but we can all use a refresher. The orientation will cover bighorn sheep identification, California Fish and Wildlife’s recovery efforts, bighorn sheep natural history, census methods, desert safety, and site assignments.

We will be dispersing to count sites on Thursday afternoon, July 4th, and conducting the count on Friday, July 5th, Saturday July 6th, and Sunday, July 7th. On Thursday, we will meet at the Palm Canyon Maintenance Shop between 1-3PM for check in and dispersal. We will expect you back at the shop by 3PM on Sunday to compile count data and get you headed home.

As always, we need willing backpackers, and we need four wheel-drive vehicles to help get volunteers into some of the count sites.

Please fill out either of the two attachments as your RSVP and then email, snail mail or fax your reply.

We have made some slight changes to this year’s count locations and will be counting at the following locations

Borrego Palm Canyon Trailhead

Borrego Palm Canyon 1st grove

Borrego Palm Canyon 2nd grove

Borrego Palm Canyon 3rd grove

Borrego Plam Canyon 4th grove

Tubb Canyon Middle Spring

Tubb Canyon Big Spring

Hellhole Upper

Hellhole Lower

Coyote Canyon 2nd crossing

Coyote Canyon Box Canyon/Lower Willows

Middle Willows Lower

Middle Willows Upper

Sheep Canyon

Cougar Canyon

Rattlesnake Spring

North Fork Palm Wash Tenaja

Agua Caliente County Park

Sentenac Canyon

We hope you can help us again this year and we thank you for your interest and dedication!

Sincerely,

Michael J. Puzzo

Sheep Count Coordinator

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Posted on April 19, 2019 09:38 PM by biohexx1