FULL RESEARCH ARTICLE John Wehausen* University of California, White Mountain Research Center, 3000 East Line Street, Bishop, CA 93514, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2926-9682 *Corresponding Author: jdwehausen@gmail.com Published 29 December 2023 • doi.org/10.51492/cfwj.109.18 Abstract Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) habitat frequently is geographically discontinuous and the metapopulation model fits this species well. Consequently, extinction-colonization dynamics are important and need … Continue reading A simple genetic method to distinguish mule deer and bighorn sheep fecal pellets and its application to detecting bighorn sheep colonization events in California