Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Lambs
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Lambs
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SHEEP LAMBS by PRISCILLA BURGERS
Two Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep lambs watch their mother as she nibbles on vegetation close by. Bighorn sheep move to the lower elevations of Rocky Mountain National Park n late spring and early summer. Here, they graze and eat soil to obtain minerals not found in their high mountain habitat. The minerals are essential in restoring nutrient levels depleted by the stresses of lambing and a poor quality winter diet. In the mid-1880's and early 1900's, the bighorn population had declined rapidly. Hunters shot bighorn by the hundreds for then prized horns and meat. When ranchers moved into the mountain valleys, they altered important bighorn habitat and introduced domestic sheep. The domestic sheep carried scabies and pneumonia, which proved fatal to large numbers of bighorn sheep. Research in the 1950's indicated that about 150 bighorn remained in the area of the national park. As the pressure of hunting and disease declined in the 1960's and 1970's, bighorn populations began rebounding. Today, approximately 300-400 bighorn sheep live in the Rocky Mountain National Park area.
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Comments (15)
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your tie for a 1st place win in the Three Different Roses contest! VLF
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2018 September: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. If the activity is allowed, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (September 6, 2018)
Judy Vincent
Amazing capture! This will be the “Seeing Double” photo of the day on the USA Photographers group home page for 7/22/18!
Carolyn Rosenberger
Congrats on your Elvis Pick of the Week! Wonderful composition, colors, and textures! L&F
Randy Rosenberger
Congratulations on being chosen for the big Feature, Elvis Pick of the Week, Your artwork was chosen to be FEATURED in this HOT spot on our homepage for this week. A truly lovely piece of artwork for all the world to view and enjoy. Thanks much for sharing! Randy “Elvis” Rosenberger Administrator of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group
Connor Beekman
Congratulations, Priscilla! Your amazing photo is now featured in the National Parks group! You are invited to post this image in the Featured Images discussion so that it has a permanent place to be seen.
Tim Abeln
Beautiful work! I imagine it must have been hard making this photograph climbing such a steep rock.