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Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists and volunteers gathered at Antelope Island State Park in an effort to capture and relocate California desert bighorn sheep from the Great Salt Lake island.
Officials say 55 (40 rams, 15 ewes/lambs) were caught. Thirty-six of the animals went to Stansbury Island and 19 went to the Newfoundland Mountains.
One of the rams had to be captured twice. After having a radio collar placed on its neck and being put in the trailer for transport, the ram jumped out when another animal was being moved in. The ram jumped over the head of the biologists placing the other sheep in the trailer and took off before being recaptured.
