Bighorn sheep are thriving five years after returning to Antelope Island , but herds could spread out to another Great Salt Lake island someday under a proposed change to the state’s species management plan.

Utah wildlife officials this week unveiled a few tweaks to their 10-year bighorn sheep and mountain goat management plans, which were adopted in 2018.

Some of the proposed adjustments are needed to account for recent legislative changes, such as adding a statement explaining a process leading up to a transplant — a process of taking animals for one herd and moving them to another — or a reintroduction into wildlife, said Rusty Robinson, once-in-a-lifetime species hunt coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, in a video explaining the adjustments.

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