Three checks totaling $73,000 were given to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department at the March 15 Minnesota-Wisconsin Chapter of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep annual meeting in Minneapolis.

North Dakota's 2008 bighorn sheep auction license, which allows the winning bidder the rare privilege of pursuing a North Dakota bighorn on a self-guided hunt, sold for $35,000. Along with an annual grant of $25,000, Minnesota-Wisconsin FNAWS, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management presented the department with $13,000 for bighorn sheep transplants.

The grant and license auction are part of a 10-year agreement, signed in 1999, between the department and Minnesota-Wisconsin FNAWS.

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This is my 17 year old stepdaughter Marcia's 1st deer. She killed her with a PSE crossbow at 15 yards in Ohio late October 2008 and it weighed in at 125 dressed. Later on a youth gun hunt, she took her 1st buck, a nice 7 point weighing about 125 also.