Posted in Bighorn sheep, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Bighorn sheep, Dog-toothed Violets, Glacier Lilies on April 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
With a severe spring snow storm moving in, the temperature sitting steady at 34 degrees and a light drizzle going on outside, today looked like a great day to sit in the living room by the fire.
So, as I placed my camera and pack in the Jeep, I wondered what Mother Nature would show me [...]
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For today’s conditioning hike I chose an old road which leads out of a canyon not far from my house. It’s a short, steep climb but affords a changing view of the canyon, the valley and some really pretty mountains, depending on how much the weather will disclose at any given time. Today, after a [...]
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Posted in Animals, Bighorn sheep, Elk, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Bighorn sheep, Elk on January 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Above, elk browse a south-facing slope.
At my feet, a winter stream.
Above and to the right of the elk, a big ram surveys his domain.
This is Montana!
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Posted in Animals, Bighorn sheep, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Cabinet Mountains, Rocky Mountain Bighorn, western Montana on December 8, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Several years ago I had the rare privilege of witnessing a battle for supremacy within a group of Rock Mountain Bighorn rams, and I’ll never forget it. One huge ram took on all challengers, calmly, one at a time, until he was the undisputed king of that mountain. The sound of their massive horns colliding [...]
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Bighorn sheep habitat in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana, November, 2007. The foreground is in the Cabinet Mountains and the background is in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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Posted in Animals, Bighorn sheep, Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Bighorn sheep on November 4, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Sure, if we were hunting for sheep, we would have been up to our elbows in elk!
Isn’t the little guy cute though?
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Posted in Animals, Bighorn sheep, Chippy Creek fire, Forest fires, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on August 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday while vectoring around to find a good angle for photographing the progress of the Chippy Creek fire, I ran into these Bighorns at the edge of the prairie. The problem is, if the current effort to stop the fire’s northeasterly progress isn’t successful, they are right in its path. They do have an escape [...]
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Posted in Animals, Bighorn sheep, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures on July 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Usually this time of year Bighorn sheep are spending their time lounging around in the higher parts of their range, so yesterday I was pleased when I saw this young ram all alone down at the valley level, about 4,000 feet below where he would usually be. I had to at least try to [...]
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Posted in Bighorn sheep, Elk, Hunting, Montana, Moose, Mule deer, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures, White-tail deer on April 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Six or seven years ago Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks completed a wildlife management project that encompassed four to five square miles of one of my favorite hunting places, where they thinned the trees to provide additional prime habitat for bighorn sheep. It didn’t work: I’ve not seen any sheep in the area they cleared [...]
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