{"id":12206,"date":"2026-11-06T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:48:19","slug":"really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=12206","title":{"rendered":"Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Outfitter Gets Probation, $20,000 Fine for Selling Ram Testicles <\/b><b>&#8211; <\/b>Montana outfitter John Edward Lewton was sentenced on October 20 with a $20,000 fine, one year of probation, and a yearlong prohibition on commercial guiding and outfitting for selling the testicles of a client\u2019s legally harvested bighorn ram. The <a href=\"https:\/\/link.mail.beehiiv.com\/v2\/c\/404b4ae01c85f3f6a9f694657d6dc58fa6a516dc12f4197b8daf4f48373ec023cebcbe4e4ead11d1a58f4bb6b605a8dc3733654691ecf73700723d0279f90924553c60436913b7388f32753b0e1428a54268759615a41d2942316796217a0af40e8a1778156ab40413fe5060c448ea9c1db5efd966d8a0f16e9b0b6b59d18980dc9450810be00041873e20c85152fb6a6af931398fac4a6594b0c5959bf482d4\/7a387e119b98ef27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/link.mail.beehiiv.com\/v2\/c\/404b4ae01c85f3f6a9f694657d6dc58fa6a516dc12f4197b8daf4f48373ec023cebcbe4e4ead11d1a58f4bb6b605a8dc3733654691ecf73700723d0279f90924553c60436913b7388f32753b0e1428a54268759615a41d2942316796217a0af40e8a1778156ab40413fe5060c448ea9c1db5efd966d8a0f16e9b0b6b59d18980dc9450810be00041873e20c85152fb6a6af931398fac4a6594b0c5959bf482d4\/7a387e119b98ef27&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1794091435257000&amp;usg=AOvVaw32VxYJzQ6DwDtKp8iKMN_Q\"><b>bizarre story<\/b><\/a> involves cloned sheep, smuggled genetics, and a man willing to pay for a dead ram\u2019s reproductive equipment. While puzzling to many, illegally selling trophy genetics can earn big money \u2014 but also puts native populations at risk of genetic contamination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outfitter Gets Probation, $20,000 Fine for Selling Ram Testicles &#8211; Montana outfitter John Edward Lewton was sentenced on October 20 with a $20,000 fine, one year of probation, and a yearlong prohibition on commercial guiding and outfitting for selling the testicles of a client\u2019s legally harvested bighorn ram. The bizarre story involves cloned sheep, smuggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12207,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}