WHEREAS the Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis, was first described to science from specimens taken near the present site of Exshaw, Alberta, by MacGillivray in 1801; and
WHEREAS a small band of bighorn has continued to exist at the type locality, which was included in Kanaskis Game Preserve, and became very tame; and
WHEREAS it has been learned that the Preserve has been opened to hunting and the sheep band may be exterminated;
THEREFORE, be it resolved that the American Society of Mammalogists deplores the opening of hunting on this particular band and requests that an attempt be made to give local protection to this band.