Description
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is home to approximately 500 Desert Bighorn Sheep. Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon is written by Mark Jorgensen who brings decades of experience studying and managing desert bighorn sheep in the Anza-Borrego Desert Park region. He is a retired ranger, biologist and Superintendent. Photographer Jeff Young provides over 200 high-quality color photographs that offers a rare glimpse into the world of the elusive desert bighorn sheep. Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon is the most comprehensive photographic work on this iconic symbol of the deserts of the southwest United States and northern Mexico.
This fascinating book features rare behavior, sheep in their desert habitat, ewes nurturing newborn lambs, and massive rams in stunning ritualized combat for dominance. It documents the struggle to provide habitat for the desert bighorn from Nuevo Leon west to Baja California, Mexico and from Texas west to California.
- Softcover; 143 pages.
Written in an engaging style, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in learning more about the iconic Desert Bighorn Sheep.
