The northern badlands population, which was hit the hardest from 2014 die-off, increased 2 percent from last year. However, the southern badlands population was down 3 percent.
Applications are available online now, with paper applications scheduled to arrive at vendors by March 10, and the deadline to apply for the hunts is March 22.
Two major tools for driving down the size of a herd are hunting and transplants like the one carried out last month.
By tracking the lambs, biologists hope to get a better idea of what is causing so many of them to die in the Pine Ridge area of Dawes and Sioux counties in northwestern Nebraska.
Herd still struggling with outbreak of bacterial pneumonia that the animals have no natural way to fight
Study seeing if intervention from wildlife managers can shorten the time it takes for bighorn populations to recover from initial infections.
Other bighorns have died in recent weeks, and one official said the positive tests are a “big concern” — but there are reasons for hope, too.
The Rocky Mountain bighorn ram unofficially scored 166 using the Boone and Crockett Club’s system.
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