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In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep were captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck Reservoir.

Of course, accessible doesn't equal tamed. Visitors often have to wend their way through elk herds at the park's entrance, and bighorn sheep unexpectedly hop off ledges onto the road in front of cars.

CPW said it took wildlife professionals four years to successfully capture 27 bighorns in a canyon near Taryall Reservoir in South Park. Those sheep have now rebuilt herds statewide, the agency said.