Montana’s 2001 bighorn sheep auction license was put on the block at the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep’s annual convention held in Reno, Nevada and went for the highest bid of $100,000. FWP received $90,000 of that amount to be used to secure key habitat and to bolster research efforts on bighorn sheep, as well as to conduct trapping and transplanting. FNAWS keeps 10 percent of the funds to administer their bighorn sheep grant program. Montana’s annual moose auction license was auctioned at the Montana Outfitters and Guides’ annual meeting and sold for $15,000. Likewise, the money generated by the moose auction is being channeled back into expanding moose management efforts.
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