To observe sheep from Canyon Lake and Apache Lake, Take US 60 Freeway east to Apache Junction. Go to the east end of Saguaro Lake and look for them on the north shore from the no wake zone to Mormon Flat Dam. To see sheep from Saguaro Lake, you can rent a boat or bring your own boat. Bighorn sheep can be observed by hiking Stewart Mountain and glassing them with binoculars or spotting scopes. Take Bush Highway east to Stewart Mountain and to Saguaro Lake. You may even see large rams butting heads and it is the best time for wildlife photography and pre-season scouting if you are lucky enough to draw a permit.Īreas: Take Power Road north out of Mesa to Bush Highway. The best time to see these magnificent animals is in early July from a boat off of Canyon Lake. Unit 22 bighorn sheep offers a unique, close to the Phoenix metropolitan area, wildlife viewing opportunity. As with most sheep populations, they are cyclic but GMU 22 always offers the opportunity of a quality hunt. The population peaked in 1994 and has had a couple declines over the years. In 1986, the first bighorn sheep permit was authorized for this unit’s (refer to regulations for current tag allocations).
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Today, the bighorn sheep range in a relatively narrow strip of habitat from roughly Goat Mountain at Apache Lake, westerly to Stewart Mountain just west of Saguaro Lake. In 1980/81, The Arizona Game and Fish Department successfully translocated approximately 30 desert bighorn sheep into Unit 22 in the Goat Mountain area north of Apache Lake.
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Most of the sheep disappeared at the turn of the century with the arrival of settlers and livestock. Overview: Historically desert bighorn sheep occupied many of the mountain ranges around the greater Phoenix area. Bighorn Sheep, Black Bear, Elk, Javelina, Merriam’s Turkey, Mountain Lion, Mule Deer, White-tailed Deer, Tree Squirrel, QuailĢ2 boundary – Beginning at the junction of the Salt and Verde Rivers north along the Verde River to the confluence with Fossil Creek northeasterly along Fossil Creek to Fossil Springs southeasterly on FS trail 18 (Fossil Spring Trail) to the top of the rim northeasterly on the rim to Nash Point on the Tonto-Coconino National Forest boundary along the Mogollon Rim easterly along this boundary to Tonto Creek southerly along the east fork of Tonto Creek to the spring box, north of the Tonto Creek Hatchery, and continuing southerly along Tonto Creek to the Salt River westerly along the Salt River to the Verde River except those portions that are sovereign tribal lands of the Tonto Apache Tribe and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.