Sentences with word «bighorn»

The beneficiaries: a historically isolated flock of bighorn sheep in Montana.

Montezuma Valley Road wiggles its way through a rugged mountain range replete with herds of bighorn sheep before it crests, offering a stunning 2,500 - foot vista of the 600,000 - acre Anza - Borrego Desert State Park.

Similarly, a 2009 study by Flesch showed a significant amount of gene flow between desert bighorn sheep populations in the U.S. and Mexico.

The Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep was the first species to be listed under the Endangered Species Act in the 21st century, and in fact, listing should have happened much sooner.

Though I had never seen bighorn sheep up close, I often admired the beauty of their bold, curving horns and sandy coat from photos I had seen in nature magazines.

Biologists have estimated that the skulls of some of the most ferocious head - bangers, such as male bighorn sheep which inhabit the mountains and canyons of North America, must experience forces up to sixty times greater than that needed to fracture a human skull.

Example: Oakland, Calif. - based BrightSource Energy Inc. last month scrapped plans to build a solar power plant on 5,130 acres in the Mojave Desert in southern California after months of protest from environmental groups concerned that the project would threaten important habitat for bighorn sheep.

Vermejo Park is home to abundant wildlife populations, including large herds of elk, deer, pronghorn antelope and bison, along with black bears, mountain lions, and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

Based on the 1972 novel Deathwatch, we meet John Madec (Douglas), a wealthy bigwig who comes to Mojave Desert for an expedition to hunt bighorn sheep.

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In the shelter of the valley webegin encountering game: elk, moose, buffalo, mule deer, a few bighorn sheepand the inevitable coyotes, ravens and magpies.

Rich in large mammals, the borderlands of Arizona bring together North American species like bighorn sheep and black bears with rare Neotropical migrants like jaguars and ocelots.

One remarkable study found that the heart rate of female bighorn sheep increased notably near a road, regardless of traffic.

Generations of paleontologists favored the idea that males rammed their heads together the way bighorn sheep do today.

A team led by biologist Chris Darimont combed through data on dozens of species — predominantly fish but also bighorn sheep, caribou, marine invertebrates, and two plants.

Other species likely to be vulnerable to border barriers include bighorn sheep, ferruginous pygmy owls and black bears.

Hogg had studied the NBR bighorns for more than 20 years.

These winners had research projects focused on improving human and animal health with topics including the immune control of hepatitis C infection, prevention of food - borne bacterial illnesses, understanding the causes of blindness, preventing highly fatal human / animal viral infections, and preventing pneumonia in wild bighorn sheep.

Primarily because of diseases introduced by exotic, domestic sheep grazing in their habitat, Sierra Nevada bighorns experienced a series of dramatic declines in the latter half of the 20th century.

A mile later, we stop in the middle of the road as a pair of bighorns slowly crosses.

I got this product because it was supposed to have a good flavor which it does my 12 year old bighorn ate it right down but two weeks into treatment he had a seizure in the last 6 days he has had 5 seizures my vet said absolutely no more and she is not going to even carry it.

We've been working for the Sierra Nevada mountain yellow - legged frog since 2000, for the Sierra Nevada bighorn since 2005 and for the American pika since 2007.

Protected 24 desert species on 11 million acres in the California Desert Conservation Area under a sweeping legal settlement with the BLM, helping protect the Peninsular bighorn sheep, prohibiting mining on 3.4 million acres and off - road vehicles on 550,000 acres, and reducing or prohibiting livestock on 2 million acres.

It is also important to be protected from the chipped windshields caused by flying rocks or crunched hoods due to collisions with elk, deer, and even bighorn sheep.

In contrast, a few flashier listed species — including the steller sea lion and the desert bighorn sheep — are getting bigger recovery budgets than recommended, reports a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

While the male Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep may be the one to boast the species» namesake big horns, the females don some relatively respectable ones nonetheless, as evidenced by this beautiful ewe photographed by Tony LePrieur in Kananaskis Country, Alberta.

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Other species, such as the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, depend on alpine and subalpine meadows for food during part of the year — as meadows shrink, this iconic symbol of western wilderness may go hungry.

The monument, located southwest of Tucson, is also home to species including hawks, owls, desert bighorn sheep and tortoises.

The desert will not be destroyed, nor will the bighorn sheep, desert tortoises, springs or wildflowers.»

The good news for them this year is that the upcoming season will be better than 1955 when 70,000 deer were killed, and the total bag included 7,000 elk, 3,000 antelope, 590 bear and 43 bighorn sheep.

Despite this seemingly encouraging fact, the bighorn is generally considered the most challenging trophy in North America.

Even on a well - organized trip the bighorn is hard to get.

Few if any hunters ever have been butted to death by a bighorn sheep.

Active families will love the abundance of foot and horse trails, and you can camp amongst the creatures, as wildlife such as American bison, mountain lions, feral horses, elk, bighorn sheep, white - tailed deer and mule deer, and prairie dogs abound, as well as at least 186 species of birds including golden eagles, sharp - tailed grouse, and wild turkeys.

The mountains around Las Vegas contain bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, desert tortoises, and bighorn sheep.

Near Lake Meade on the Colorado River just outside Las Vegas, I stood one hundred yards away from a watering hole at midday and saw twenty bighorn sheep, several with large curling horns, as they came to take a drink.

Macho mating displays — turkeys strutting, lions roaring, bighorn sheep colliding — quickly tell her who is biggest and burliest.

When he and five colleagues analyzed the harmful effects of the border fence on pygmy owls, bighorn sheep and other species in a 2010 paper, they dealt with hypotheticals.

The team found that bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) charge each other head on; that mountain goats (Oreamos americanus) bump one another in the flanks; and that bison (Bison bison) wrestle with their horns.

Large animals like black bears, cougars, and bighorn sheep used to migrate between the mountain ranges, but human development has cut off their corridors and reinforced each range's biological isolation.

But when they tallied the bone lesions that are characteristic of tuberculosis, they found that only bovids with origins in Asia — like bison, bighorn sheep, and musk ox — were afflicted.

In its creation of the monument late last year, the Obama administration pointed to concern over vandalism in the area, much of which had previously been designated as areas of critical environmental concern for the desert tortoise and bighorn sheep.

Burnett says he has already agreed to changes in the route to keep the contest away from the lambing grounds of bighorn sheep, and for 93 per cent of the way it will follow established jeep trails.

They are worried that the athletes will frighten the bighorn sheep and endangered peregrine falcons, and break up the fragile «cryptobiotic crust» — the blanket of blue - green algae, lichens, bacteria and mosses that holds together the region's soils.

Wolverines in the southernmost group, those in the Sierra Nevada, were hurt by a change in their food supply — deer, elk and bighorn sheep.

The agency will also watch the wolves closely to see how many wild ungulates — such as elk, deer, and bighorn sheep — the animals take.