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The National Bighorn Sheep Center (formerly known as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretative Center) is a 2,775-square-foot (257.8 m 2) Interpretive Center [1] dedicated to public education about the biology and habitat of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep with specific focus on the currently largest herd of Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep in the coterminous United States that winter in the ...
This list of museums in Wyoming encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) [5] is a species of sheep in North America [6] with large horns. The horns can weigh up to 30 pounds (14 kg), while the sheep themselves weigh up to 300 pounds (140 kg). [7]
The F.S. King Brothers Ranch Historical District is located in the hills northeast of Laramie, Wyoming. Hills rising to 8,500 feet, sagebrush and rocky outcroppings surround the ranch. The ranch house and outbuildings lie on the north slope of shallow valley at the confluence of three draws, and are the only man-made structures visible in this ...
Bighorn sheep inhabit alpine meadows, grassy mountain slopes, and foothill country near rugged, rocky cliffs and bluffs. [8] Since bighorn sheep cannot move through deep snow, they prefer drier slopes, where the annual snowfall is less than about 150 cm (60 in) per year. [8] A bighorn's winter range usually has lower elevations than its summer ...
The Headquarters Park Historic District encompasses the summer headquarters for the Leo Sheep Company, which focused on wool production, and the Rocky Mountain Sheep Company, which concentrated on lamb production, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The area was one of the major summer sheep and lamb-herding regions of Wyoming.
Bighorn sheep and mountain goats inhabit the rocky terrain and highest elevations. During the winter, one of the largest bighorn sheep herds in the lower 48 states congregate in the region around Dubois, Wyoming; however, their numbers since 1990 have been diminished due to disease transmitted from contact with domesticated sheep and goats. [55]
Bighorn sheep. Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) were once very numerous in western United States and were an important food source for humans. The "Sheep eaters", a band of Shoshone people, lived year-round in Yellowstone until 1880. Their principal food was bighorn sheep and they made their bows from sheep horns. By 1900, during an "epoch of ...