Man pleads guilty to trying to genetically create a line of giant bighorn sheep. Arthur Schubarth, 80, owner of a ranch in the state of Montana (northwest) intended for raising game for hunting reserves.
He illegally imported Kyrgyzstan DNA material taken from an Argali mouflon, the world's largest mountain sheep. The goal was to create larger and therefore more profitable animals in order to sell them to hunting reserves, particularly in Texas (south), where customers pay to shoot captive game.