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FWP and partners release bighorn sheep in Little Belt Mountains >

January 11

50 sheep translocated from herd in Missouri River Breaks. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and partnering organizations and agencies captured and translocated bighorn sheep this month to an area of the Little Belt Mountains about 65 miles southeast of Great Falls.