Wreckreation vs. wildlife

Teton skiers balk at bighorn sheep closure

A bighorn sheep lamb in Wyoming. US Fish and Wildlife Service photo.

THE NEWS: After years of collaborative effort, a working group releases its strategy for saving the remaining native bighorn sheep of the Teton Range in Idaho and Wyoming, proposing the winter closure of 21,233 acres to humans. Even though this only would affect about 2,000 acres of hi…