In the neighbouring region around Churn Creek southwest of Williams Lake, the province has contracted the cull of wolves and coyotes to protect two sheep herds in decline. Two bighorn sheep graze in La Quinta, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Bighorn sheep are a blue-listed species in B.C., which means they are not immediately threatened but are a species ‘of concern’. Predator removal is not being used in any other part of the province to manage bighorn sheep populations, it said. Bighorn sheep are also vulnerable to stress and stress-related disease and predators are not mentioned as threats in the centre’s 2015 conservation status report.

Source: thestar September 30, 2018 10:52 UTC