Persistence of mountain sheep populations in Arizona

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 399-402

  Krausman, Paul R ^a   Etchberger, Richard C ^a,c   Lee, Raymond M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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