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The adjacent Sheep River Provincial Park contains the Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary which was established in 1973 to protect the wintering range of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Other ungulates that are common to the park are elk, mule deer, and white-tailed deer. Moose are present in the park but less common. [7]: 14
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 ...
Alberta Experimental Wolverine Monitoring Project The park protects a large population of mountain goats and bighorn sheep (20% of the total population in Alberta). Other mammals commonly found here include grizzly bears , woodland caribou , elk , deer , cougars and timber wolves . [ 9 ]
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Sheep River Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Alberta, Canada, 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Diamond Valley on highway 546. It is part of the Kananaskis Country park system and encompasses a portion of the Sheep River valley.
Big Horn or Bighorn may refer to: Bighorn sheep, ... a proposed park in Alberta; Big Horn 144A, ... Montana; Big Horn County, Wyoming ...
A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in ...
An 80-year-old Montana rancher has pleaded guilty to felony charges stemming from his role in an almost decade-long scheme to create "giant sheep hybrids," the Department of Justice said Tuesday.