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The station is located roughly six miles north of Dubois, Idaho, and its lands span both Idaho and Montana.Its headquarters are on 27,930 acres (113.0 km 2) of land owned by the Agricultural Research Service, including research facilities, animal facilities (such as lambing pens and dry lots), as well as residential facilities.
Run or station is the term used in New Zealand for large sheep or cattle properties. Akitio; Brancepeth Station; Castle Hill; Double Hill Station, located on the Rakaia River; Erewhon Station, named after a fictitious place (based on Mesopotamia Station) in Samuel Butler's book "Erewhon" Flock Hill; Glenaray Station; Maraekakaho; Marainanga ...
The Polypay sheep breed is a white, medium-sized (65 kg), polled sheep which was developed in the 1960s at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho. [1] In general, Polypay sheep are noted for being a highly prolific maternal dual-purpose (meat and wool) breed. It produces yearly about 4.2 kg of wool and is weaned at 120 days. [2] [3]
The city was named in 1892 for Fred Dubois (1851−1930), a prominent politician in Idaho's early years. [6] He came to Idaho in 1880, later becoming the state's first U.S. Senator, serving two non-consecutive terms (1891−97, 1901−07). Six miles (10 km) north of town is the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, the county's second largest employer ...
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 ...
Leaping out after shearing in Wyoming. The Targhee is an American breed of domestic sheep.It was developed in the early twentieth century at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture at Dubois, Idaho, [1] and is named after the Targhee National Forest which surrounds it.
Dubois is a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 971 at the 2010 census , but dropped to 911 in the 2020 census. [ 5 ] The population nearly doubles in the summer with part-time residents.
It was built as a power plant for the Sheep Mountain Tunnel. [2] Originally it had a horizontal waterwheel that generated compressed air for miners in the nearby silver mines. [2] It fell into disuse in 1917 when the Sheep Mountain Tunnel mine closed. The mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1985. [2]