The subtitle / question "Why hasn't the reintroduction of bighorn sheep to the Catalina Mountains worked?" is misleading. That is not a question that Cathy Rosenberg addresses in her well-written, balanced story on the ongoing effort to reintroduce desert bighorn sheep into the Santa Catalina Mountains. Arizona Game and Fish Department has conducted numerous successful translocations of desert bighorns into Arizona mountain ranges. If the present project does prove unsuccessful, the department hopefully will gain insight into the reasons why. It might simply be that too-frequent encounters with humans and their activities may prevent reestablishment of the species in the Catalinas, an opinion expressed by Linwood Smith in his recent piece in the Arizona Daily Star (Dec. 17), but it is sad to see the Tucson Weekly's cover subvert prematurely its own well-researched article on the latest effort. Cecil Schwalbe
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