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Article: Back where they belong: reintroduction of bighorn sheep into parks.
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- National Parks
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- September 1, 1998
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An ambitious Park Service program seeks to return desert bighorn to their historic range in more than a dozen parks. Unlike their Rocky Mountain cousins, this subspecies has adapted to hot, dry conditions.
ON A GLORIOUS spring day in Canyonlands National Park in Utah, volunteer ranger Keni Koreba had a close encounter of the wild kind. "I was sitting on a rock outcrop," she recalls, "when a bighorn ram suddenly appeared about 20 feet away." After her initial shock, Koreba said she was comforted by the presence of the huge animal. "It would have somehow been more lonely and cold without him there," she mused.
Like Koreba, more and more national park ...