NOUN
- wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
How To Use bighorn sheep In A Sentence
- Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.
- The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep.
- The USFWS predicts removing the dams will improve habitat conditions for several groups of wildlife, including game birds, raptors, deer, elk, mountain lion, bighorn sheep, small mammals, even bats.
- Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.
- Native grasses support cattle grazing and provide forage and shelter for native wild animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse.
- Desert bighorn sheep is not a real taxonomic category; it includes four subspecies of bighorn sheep that live in desert regions.
- Over the years, game species, such as moose and bighorn sheep, and other creatures, such as badgers and river otters, were killed in appalling numbers.
- The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou.
- The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep.
- Deep gorges slice through the Canyonlands' vast sagebrush steppe, which supports one of the largest concentrations of California bighorn sheep in the West.