[CINC] Information needed

[paul jr petrich]

Cubby,
 They went many different routes over a long period of time. The Nature Conservancy was involved in corralling feral sheep on their 4/5th of the island long before the National Park obtained the East end. I was a volunteer for a couple of summers ( a week at a time ) involved in a massive project building barb wire fences that corralled the feral sheep even  while Stanton was still alive in the late 80s and early 90s. The Nature Conservancy was scheduled to gain full possession of their sector when he died. 
     While we were corralling the sheep, to protect other regions from their devastation, I recall different ways of getting rid of them were were discussed and employed, with killing them on the island, as was done with the pigs, a much used option. I will send you a photo of one sickly ram who chased me on one of my after work jogs. Sickly sheep created a problem in using some other options, I recall. 
     While we were doing this in those years, the Gherninis end of the island was involved with hunting the sheep through activities sponsored by "The Island Adventures Club." From 1984 through to 1990 "Island Adventures" grossed over $1 million . The sheep population remained dense on the East end of the island for many years after the issue was "solved" on the Nature Conservancy side.
 The Santa Barbara News Press has many articles and editorials bout their slant on the killing of sheep on Santa Cruz Island during these years. They followed up these opinionated articles with others about the killing of rats on Anacapa, and the killing of pigs more recently.  Paul
  P.S. Relating to our current concerns about the Santa Cruz Island Fox. It is interesting to note that when we travelled all over the TNC part of the island building fences the fox population appeared to be at least the same healthy level it is now. Also, no matter where we were on the island, near the main ranch area, or on some distant point, the foxes acted exactly as they do today in theScorpion Anchorage area. They were always oblivious to us, yet obviously sniffing and searching-and probably smelling our lunch and snack food!  
  
On Jun 23, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Cubby Winkel wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Recently, I had a guest ask me specifically where the Santa Cruz Island sheep are.  Can anybody help?
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> Thanks in advance for your help!
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> Regards,
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> Cubby Winkel
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