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Bighorn sheep rest on a hillside on Wild Horse Island State Park. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake FILE)

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Mountain lions likely trimmed island sheep herd to lowest number in decades
March 16, 2022 midnight

Mountain lions likely trimmed island sheep herd to lowest number in decades

Three now-dead cougars that found their way onto Flathead Lake’s Wild Horse Island handily hunted down its bighorn sheep herd to as few as 35 of the prized Rocky Mountain ungulates.