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Article: Sierra Bighorns Need Protection.(Brief Article)
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- National Parks
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Last 100 of dying breed exposed to illness and lion predation.
BISHOP, CALIF. --Suffering decades of domestic sheep intrusion and a more recent threat from mountain lions, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep population now hovers on a ledger's precipitous as the crags on which they live. Approximately 100 animals are all that remain of this noble mountain breed.
The Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep is a genetically and morphologically distinct subspecies from any other bighorn sheep variety. They range only on the crest and eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, close to both Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.
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