
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Ram! This big guy was overseeing his small harem of ewes when we espied him resting in the pines near the Red Canyon Overlook in the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area in Utah this past Friday. A few members of the small band that we saw Friday had radio collars like this ram used to track sheep movements. Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep were reintroduced to areas where they had been extirpated many years ago and restoration efforts have been successful in returning these magnificent animals to their natural habitat.