How To Use Bighorn In A Sentence
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The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou.
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While the bighorn sheep, the black bear, the mountain lion and the bobcat inhabit higher elevations and are elusive to visitors, one is more likely to sight the elk and the moose in the valley.
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Keep an eye out for wildlife: Elk and even bears can be spotted in the valleys, while mountain goats and bighorn sheep live higher up.
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument memorizes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life.
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Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.
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Amidst this wild and striking scenery, Captain Bonneville, for the first time, beheld flocks of the ahsahta or bighorn, an animal which frequents these cliffs in great numbers.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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Similarly, the arrival of burros represented a change in the environment of bighorn sheep on which natural selection will work to produce bighorn sheep better adapted to compete for water.
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We bushwhacked and scree-slid back down, but the bighorn faded back into the rocks.
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Deep gorges slice through the Canyonlands' vast sagebrush steppe, which supports one of the largest concentrations of California bighorn sheep in the West.
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Although large flocks with herders and dogs frightened them off, there were always strays to investigate; and domestic ewes in estrus were irresistible to bighorn rams.
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The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep.
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With a little luck and patience, you can see moose, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, coyotes, wolves, black bears, and grizzlies as well as ospreys, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, and lots of other birds.
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“He was wiped out with some two hundred and fifty men at the Little Bighorn, which is a creek in Montana, I believe.”
Telegraph Days
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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.
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Wild populations of bighorn mountain sheep are carefully managed in North America for hunters who want a chance to shoot a ram with a trophy set of horns.
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Desert bighorn sheep is not a real taxonomic category; it includes four subspecies of bighorn sheep that live in desert regions.
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Native grasses support cattle grazing and provide forage and shelter for native wild animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse.
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Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.
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The greater part of the tribe, however, had penetrated the mountains to hunt the elk, deer, and ahsahta or bighorn.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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Wide prairies Vegetable productions Tabular hills Slabs of sandstone Nebraska or Platte River Scanty fare Buffalo skulls Wagons turned into boats Herds of buffalo Cliffs resembling castles The chimney Scott's Bluffs Story connected with them The bighorn or ahsahta Its nature and habits Difference between that and the "woolly sheep," or goat of the mountains
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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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.
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On the opposing spread there are photos of crackling staphylococcus aureus, zig-zaggy leptospira, pickle-like vibrio, frightening spirillum volutans, a decaying tree, a microscope, and . . . wait for it . . . a bighorn sheep.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Sighting a distant Indian encampment near the Little Bighorn, Custer prepared an attack on June 25, 1876.
Little Bighorn, Large Legend
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The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou.
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He was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes, an event popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand".
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Few biologists doubt that some strains common in domestic sheep are lethal to bighorns, but what actually happens during a bighorn epidemic is still far from clear.
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Big snow event taking place across the west, especially from the wind river, the bitterroot, the bighorns down to the San Juan and Sangre de Cristos.
CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2009
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Thwarting a U.S. raid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne braves took no prisoners, killing Custer and 265 of his men.
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The 10-inch Bowie knife depicts the bighorn sheep in its native range and is etched and highlighted with 24 - karat gold, copper and silver.
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A male bighorn sheep curls back his upper lip in an attempt to determine the reproductive state of a female close by.
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Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.
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The ahsahta, argali, or bighorn, on the contrary, has short hair like a deer, and resembles it in shape, but has the head and horns of a sheep, and its flesh is said to be delicious mutton.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep.
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The train begins gently to carve its way into the craggy mountains, revealing clusters of bighorn sheep, elk and increasingly impressive peaks.
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They shot a buck and scared a bighorn lamb off a cliff, their first fresh meat in weeks.
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The chief played a part in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 and, in all likelihood, the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 alongside legendary Sioux leader Crazy Horse.
At Auction: Sioux Shirt Woven Into History
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Desert bighorns live in dry, rugged, mountainous terrain, and eat seasonally available plants such as yucca, prickly pear and wild onions.
Bighorn Sheep Get A New Home In Texas
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For the economist, the Little Bighorn debacle is an excellent example of public choice economics in action.
Custer and Public Choice Economics
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Seeing a desert bighorn sheep in the wild was as exciting for them as seeing the endangered argali (a large Asian bighorn sheep) had been for us when we had the opportunity to visit China the previous year.
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Page view page image: dressed leather. they sometimes make bows of the Elk's horn and those also of the bighorn. those of the Elk's horn are made of a single peice and covered on the back with glue and sinues like those made of wood, and are frequently ornamented with a stran [d] wrought [of] porcupine quills and sinues raped around them for some distance at both extremities. the bows of the bighorn are formed of small peices laid flat and cemented with gleue, and rolled with siniws, after which, they are also covered on the back with sinews and glew, and highly ornamented as they are much prized. forming the sheild is a cerimony of great importance among them, this implement would in their minds be devested of much of its protecting power were it not inspired with those virtues by their old men and jugglers. their method of preparing it is thus, an entire skin of a bull buffaloe two years old is first provided; a feast is next prepared and all the warriors old men and jugglers invited to partake. a hole is sunk in the ground about the same in diameter with the intended sheild and about
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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Today, systematic surveys show there are more than 800 bighorns in the refuge.
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Figure 3 shows mass change for bighorn rams 1 year and older in relation to the proportion of time spent in rutting activities during the rut from 2000-2002.
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The lesson of the golf at Bighorn may be the Ryder Cup warning that there is nothing more difficult than foursomes when your partner is playing a little better than you.
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The rich fossil record from the early Eocene Bighorn Basin includes the remains of the most ancient primates, hoofed animals, and carnivores.
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It should have surprised no one that two years later, on a hot, windless afternoon in June 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by the Sioux near a river in southeastern Montana called the Little Bighorn.
Betrayed!
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Introduced to western Texas and southern New Mexico in the 1940s, aoudads are now so populous that it is feared that their presence may threaten the native desert bighorn sheep.
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert.
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Paul Rauber's article left the reader with the unfortunate impression that one must somehow choose between mountain lions and bighorn sheep.
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The thick chaparral of a remote region in the Sespe Wilderness, part of the Los Padres National Forest, in Ventura, California, has concealed a lost herd of desert bighorn sheep for more than five years.
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It begins where the mules are tied up on the trailhead, and was originally worn out by bighorn sheep.
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They include several mouflons as well as the American bighorn or mountain sheep, O. canadensis.
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Until 1993, the Pusch Ridge bighorns had good reason to avoid people, since they could be legally hunted.
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Where early travelers saw sharp-tailed grouse, bison, bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, numerous beaver and even wolverines, today they see dust, feral horses, and noxious weeds including cheatgrass, halogeton and Russian thistle.
Bird Cloud
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The descent was rugged and romantic, along deep ravines and defiles, overhung with crags and cliffs, among which they beheld numbers of the ahsahta or bighorn, skipping fearlessly from rock to rock.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
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See wildlife such as bison, elk, mountain goats and bighorn sheep.
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On December 28 they were intercepted by the 7th Cavalry, the same branch of the U. S. Army that was headed by George Armstrong Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn.
Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota
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—Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col.
Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo?
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And in the fossils we examined, we saw no evidence of fractures, healed wounds, or specialized adaptations for managing the forces generated by head-butting, such as the adaptations that occur in bighorn sheep.
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A male bighorn sheep curls back his upper lip in an attempt to determine the reproductive state of a female close by.
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But then, in the happiest moment at Bighorn, he actually referred to himself in the diminutive.
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Others certainly consider the Swell - with its scenic geology, archaeological sites, wild horses, burros, and Utah's largest herd of desert bighorn sheep - a special place.
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Today he uses the Catalina bighorns in his classes, as a graphic example of how not to manage wildlife.
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But we confabbed the night before, and agreed it would probably be best if we headed out on our tour for the bighorn sheep experts early in the day, while it was cool.
Grouse Diary Entry
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They shot a buck and scared a bighorn lamb off a cliff, their first fresh meat in weeks.
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With a little luck and patience, you can see moose, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, coyotes, wolves, black bears, and grizzlies as well as ospreys, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, and lots of other birds.
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In September 1833 he led his brigade of thirty men and one hundred horses southeast along the foot of the Bighorns, intending to hunt up a Crow village to obtain permission to trap beaver on the Tongue and Powder Rivers.
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It does leave me wondering if the bighorns in the Lander area graze on cannabis sativa in the mornings.
Video: Bighorn vs.
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Perhaps a little more exciting to catch sight of (at least for me) is the bighorn sheep, mule deer, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote or one of the amazing birds of prey.
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Bighorn sheep and other large ungulates are highly dimorphic, with males being substantially larger than females, and variation in male reproductive success is also high in these species.
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Today Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, home to pronghorns and prairie dogs, coyotes and rattlesnakes, is nearly a desert.
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Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate.
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Under Texas law, a person found taking deer, antelope or bighorns without landowner permission (trespassing and poaching) faces a State Jail Felony criminal charge.
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The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep.
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Besides the numerous gangs of elk, large flocks of the ahsahta or bighorn, the mountain sheep, were to be seen bounding among the precipices.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone).
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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Male bighorn sheep with the largest horns, for instance, have the highest social rank and are more likely to mate.
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The 10-inch Bowie knife depicts the bighorn sheep in its native range and is etched and highlighted with 24 - karat gold, copper and silver.
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In 1833 the American Fur Company traded with the Crows at Fort Cass, located at the mouth of the Bighorn River.
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Bighorn sheep that do not lick the genitals of other males and engage in anal intercourse become social outcast in their societies … Are they abnormal?
Think Progress » Lesbian Constance McMillen excluded from alternative prom organized by students’ parents.
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You will see playful herds of antelope, moose and elk, bighorn sheep and bounding deer along with a plethora of smaller creatures carrying on their daily tasks unimpeded.
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Four Peaks is home to black bear, deer, javelina, bighorn sheep, mountain lions and other animals.
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Native grasses support cattle grazing and provide forage and shelter for native wild animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and sage grouse.
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Of the 40,000 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in North America, Alberta has the largest population with up to 7,000 animals.
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Their education is going so well that they are being used to work with other species, such as cougars, moose, and bighorn sheep.
