It begins where the mules are tied up on the trailhead, and was originally worn out by bighorn sheep. |
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Pikes Peak is home to one of Colorado's largest bighorn sheep herds, and riders on the cog railway frequently see many of these animals. |
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They include several mouflons as well as the American bighorn or mountain sheep, O. canadensis. |
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Of the 40,000 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in North America, Alberta has the largest population with up to 7,000 animals. |
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Their education is going so well that they are being used to work with other species, such as cougars, moose, and bighorn sheep. |
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Paul Rauber's article left the reader with the unfortunate impression that one must somehow choose between mountain lions and bighorn sheep. |
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The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep. |
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Native grasses support cattle grazing and provide forage and shelter for native wild animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse. |
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Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies. |
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Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate. |
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We bushwhacked and scree-slid back down, but the bighorn faded back into the rocks. |
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See wildlife such as bison, elk, mountain goats and bighorn sheep. |
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Families gawk at a game enclosure featuring stuffed buffalo, grizzlies, bighorn sheep and other rarely seen emblems of the American frontier. |
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It is a place where elk and bighorn sheep saunter the streets of our mountain towns. |
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Animal life includes bighorn, deer, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, elk, moose, and a variety of birds. |
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Cougars hunt mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, moose calves, and in the west, bighorn sheep. |
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Bear Country USA is a drive-through wildlife park with bears, bison, mountain lions, elk, wolves, and bighorn sheep. |
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Late summer and fall are optimum for wildlife sightings of bear, deer, elk and bighorn sheep. |
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Horns of a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep measure up to 125Â cm in length and 460Â mm in circumference at the base. |
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The bighorn sheep is one of the supporters of the arms of British Columbia. |
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Deep gorges slice through the Canyonlands' vast sagebrush steppe, which supports one of the largest concentrations of California bighorn sheep in the West. |
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Over the years, game species, such as moose and bighorn sheep, and other creatures, such as badgers and river otters, were killed in appalling numbers. |
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The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou. |
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Perhaps a little more exciting to catch sight of is the bighorn sheep, mule deer, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote or one of the amazing birds of prey. |
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You will see playful herds of antelope, moose and elk, bighorn sheep and bounding deer along with a plethora of smaller creatures carrying on their daily tasks unimpeded. |
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Few biologists doubt that some strains common in domestic sheep are lethal to bighorns, but what actually happens during a bighorn epidemic is still far from clear. |
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I took the remote control and found a nature channel, where bighorn sheep collided against each other in alpine meadows. |
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Wild populations of bighorn mountain sheep are carefully managed in North America for hunters who want a chance to shoot a ram with a trophy set of horns. |
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A drive along the highways traversing the national parks almost guarantees sightings of moose, elk, mule deer, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, mountain goats, black bear or coyote. |
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In late summer and fall, bighorn sheep, particularly the rams, are beautifully clothed in a rich brown coat with white muzzle, white rump patch, and white trim outlining the back of all four legs. |
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Reclamation of habitat for bighorn sheep has been particularly successful at both the Gregg River and Luscar Mines, with the reclaimed landscape used primarily as winter range but also for lambing, rutting and summer use. |
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However, it is hoped that further re-introductions, new parks and reserves, and improved livestock grazing practices will be rewarded by increased numbers of our unique and majestic bighorn. |
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The principal bighorn decline was from 1850 to 1900-a result of diseases introduced by domestic sheep, loss of ranges to livestock, and excessive hunting by man. |
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Sign up for a three-hour excursion into Black Canyon, with a chance to spot bighorn sheep and great horned owls along the way. |
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It's also home to many rare and endemic animals and plants such as bighorn sheep, the Panamint alligator lizard, and the Panamint daisy. |
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As in the case of the buffalo, or bison, bighorn herds will never return to their original abundance because so much of their former range has been permanently settled or altered by man. |
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The ND Game and Fish Department conducts big game aerial surveys for mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, moose, pronghorn and bighorn sheep. |
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There wolf, lynx, imperial eagle, black vulture and dense herds of large mammals such as deer, roe deer, boars, mountain goats, bighorn sheep or deer. |
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In this study, bighorn sheep showed a slight increase in horn size. |
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert. |
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The camp moved in the direction of the Sioux and Cheyennes, toward the Bighorn River and foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. |
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In 1833 the American Fur Company traded with the Crows at Fort Cass, located at the mouth of the Bighorn River. |
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But then, in the happiest moment at Bighorn, he actually referred to himself in the diminutive. |
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After only a week she throws the burlap water bag over her shoulder and walks to the river to turn the trout back into the Little Bighorn. |
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The rich fossil record from the early Eocene Bighorn Basin includes the remains of the most ancient primates, hoofed animals, and carnivores. |
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On 25 June 1876, Custer attacked a great village of Sioux and Cheyennes on Montana's Little Bighorn River. |
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Custer's Crow scouts reported the encampment of more than two thousand Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors that extended for four miles along the Little Bighorn River. |
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The lesson of the golf at Bighorn may be the Ryder Cup warning that there is nothing more difficult than foursomes when your partner is playing a little better than you. |
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Thwarting a U.S. raid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne braves took no prisoners, killing Custer and 265 of his men. |
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Battlefield archaeology was pioneered in the USA in the 1980s to discover the truth about the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
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George Custer and his command of the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. |
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In October 1877 Custer's body was also removed from the Little Bighorn National Cemetery by his family. |
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The main character is 121-year-old Jack Crabb, who recounts his childhood living among Indians and his encounters with Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn. |
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Kansas, and what is now Montana, including the massacres at Sand Creek and the Washita River, before culminating on a beautiful June 1876 day on the Little Bighorn River. |
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The Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep is dedicated to the recovery of the unique and endangered Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep through conservation, education and research. |
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In addition, the Wildcat 1000 X utilizes Arctic Cat's new sway bar for stability, in conjunction with new, heavy duty FOX Podium shocks and Maxxis Bighorn tires. |
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