The Wild Sheep Foundation announced the official formation of the new Southeast Chapter of WSF.

“The Wild Sheep Family is growing,” said WSF President and CEO Gray N. Thornton. “We’ve received a lot of interest from our existing members and others in this region of the country who want to step up and be more directly involved in supporting our purpose to ‘Put and Keep More Wild Sheep on the Mountain®.”

The Southeast Chapter joins fifteen existing WSF Chapters, thirteen in the U.S. and two in Canada. The Foundation also has 38 Affiliates nationally and internationally.

The new Chapter’s charter was recently signed at the Foundation’s 16th Chapter & Affiliate Summit this past week in Calgary, Alberta, hosted by Wild Sheep Foundation Alberta.

“There was a lot of excitement surrounding this announcement and signing,” Thornton added. “Creating an opportunity like this for passionate wild sheep hunter-conservationists to generate regional support adds capacity to our Mission. The beneficiary will be our treasured wild sheep.”

Anyone interested in the Southeast Chapter of WSF is welcome to join, and can do so online at this link.

The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF), based in Bozeman, Mont., was founded in 1977 by sportsmen and other wild sheep conservationists. WSF is the premier advocate for wild sheep, having raised and expended more than $145 million, positively impacting these species through population and habitat enhancements, research and education, and conservation advocacy programs in North America, Europe, and Asia to “Put and Keep Wild Sheep On the Mountain”®. In North America, these and other efforts have increased bighorn sheep populations from historic lows in the 1950s-60s of 25,000 to more than 85,000 today. WSF has a membership of more than 11,000 worldwide. www.wildsheepfoundation.org