$250K Raised for West Texas Bighorn Sheep Preservation

The Texas Bighorn Society (TBS) held its 18th Annual Roundup, which featured a desert bighorn sheep presentation by Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist Clay Brewer and an auction, April 21st and April 22nd at the Omni Dallas Park West Hotel.
     Two desert bighorn sheep permits were auctioned on the 22nd, the Texas Governor's Tag being purchased for a record setting price of $105,000.00 by Mr. Walter Ford of Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The second hunting permit, a Tiburon Island, Mexico desert bighorn sheep tag was sold to Mr. Guinn Croussen of Dallas, Texas.  Just over a quarter of a million dollars was raised by TBS at this event "to further the re-establishment of the desert bighorn sheep in Texas".
     Texas Bighorn Society is a small, grassroots conservation organization dedicated to returning the once extinct desert bighorn sheep to its native habitat in the rugged mountains of the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.
     TBS projects include the construction of remote water collectors/guzzlers for bighorn sheep and other indigenous wildlife, the purchase and permanent protection of state-owned property critical as bighorn habitat and travel corridors, and support for the management and development of the Texas bighorn herd, which now numbers over 800 animals.