"Rampant" poaching, Wolf Eagle? Can you cite any numbers? When is all this mayhem supposed to take place? In summer, when thousands of people are hiking around the mountains and could witness a hunt or a guy walking out with horns on his pack? Or during the hunting season when hundreds of hunters are watching one another (only a small percent are successful). Or winter or spring when roaming around where the sheep live is slippery, cold and hazardous? Poaching is, by its nature, secretive. No doubt some poaching occurs. Several rams have been shot near the Seward Highway over the years. The Troopers have caught these sheep poachers because they were seen carrying the horns down the trail. But poaching isn't reducing populations of Dall sheep.

And you can't "decimate" a species by shooting one or two percent of the males.