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Ripp
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Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone...
      #208113 - 07/05/12 08:45 AM

Took these the other day on my way through and around Yellowstone National Park..

Good to see game out and about after the winter...and an easy winter at that..

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These guys came running from the other side of the hill..fear in their eyes..apparently something had gotten their attention..with Griz and wolves out combing the hills..who knows..but they were not hanging around..



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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: Ripp]
      #208114 - 07/05/12 08:47 AM


Awesome pics, thanks for posting.


Question for you.

What type of sheep are they exactly ?

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tinker
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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: 500Nitro]
      #208115 - 07/05/12 09:34 AM

Sweet!

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: tinker]
      #208117 - 07/05/12 11:00 AM

Bighorns Nige

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500Nitro
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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: gryphon]
      #208119 - 07/05/12 12:31 PM


Thanks Gryph.

Not my forte so thought I would ask instead of looking on the net and getting it wrong.

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Ripp
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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: 500Nitro]
      #208133 - 07/05/12 11:50 PM

Yes--the are Bighorns ..looking a little scruffy as they are doing a big of shedding their winter coats...

It is good to see them in that area as they had a severe die off a few years back from the lung desease they get..and once it hits a herd..it really spreads..killing off about 80% or more in this case...

Now if they can hold off the wolves they should do well.

Ripp

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: Ripp]
      #208172 - 09/05/12 01:47 AM

Goo dpics, Ripp - older sheep is sure broomed short and low on the left side. I suppose he could be legal due to the right side looking to meet or pass the eye. Not in the park, of course.

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Ripp
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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: DarylS]
      #208215 - 10/05/12 06:51 AM

Darryl

There were actually out of the park..so they can be hunted..in fact where they were is where i shot a mtn. goat about 12 years back..

the sheep down in this area are much smaller typically that the ones in the breaks here in Montana..but great to see them none the less.

Ripp

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: Ripp]
      #208219 - 10/05/12 11:01 AM

They get big up here, too. Actually I'm surprised to see those survivors.

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Ripp
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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: DarylS]
      #208251 - 11/05/12 05:37 AM

Quote:

They get big up here, too. Actually I'm surprised to see those survivors.



Actuall I am as well...the elk herds in the area have REALLY taken a hit with some pockets being at an all time low..in addition, the moose are all but gone...

Ripp

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: Ripp]
      #208253 - 11/05/12 06:26 AM


Ripp

Is that Wolves that are causing the decrease in numbers ?

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: 500Nitro]
      #208257 - 11/05/12 08:41 AM

Yessir, 500 Nitro! I know the answer to that. It was the government's (backed by the greenies) big idea to control the #'s of the elk in Yellowstone Mational Park through the introduction of BC wolves, as they felt the indiginous, local wolves already living there, were not doing a good enough job of it. Makes one wonder that that 'job' they wanted done, really was, doesn't it.

Any time you introduce a foreign animal into an eco-system, you upset the future of that area. I know this - Ripp and Dan know this, what the H---l is wrong with the government, unless the spoiling of the local hunting and that across the Northern States was the prime objective in the first place.

I just watched on TV the other evening, a slim of a pack of Yellowstone's BC wolves terrorizing a buffalo herd, singling out, killing a buffalo and eating it.

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: DarylS]
      #208260 - 11/05/12 10:14 AM


Daryl

I have been following the Wolf debate on a few forums.

I thought it would be.

What prompted me to ask the question is the comment
about light and heavy winters. Obviously heavy winters
affect the animals more.

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Ripp
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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: 500Nitro]
      #208278 - 11/05/12 11:13 PM

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Daryl

What prompted me to ask the question is the comment
about light and heavy winters. Obviously heavy winters
affect the animals more.



Absolutely..in a number of factors..heavier snow and more cold puts more stain on the animals --weaker..easier to catch and kill...or deeper snow..easier to trap in deep snow and hamstring..especially on moose..

Ripp

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: Ripp]
      #208293 - 12/05/12 07:45 AM

In the late spring, where warming softens the snows, all animals sink more deeply - they follow these chest deep trails through the snow, makes it easier for them.

Then, at night, when the temperature plunges and freezing hardens the upper surface into a crust, the wolves run on the surface - not the ungulates, who then wollow in the deep snow, still tryng to run faste then those in front of them in the channels and when hard pressed by a wolf pack strung out and running alongside them, lung out of the narrow deep trail where the wolves are actually above them. When lunging out of these trail, they tire and bog down quickly to lodge into snow they cannot move in.

I do not know the situation there, but with our snows of winter, this very thing happens here, in the Spring. In the deep winter with temps hovering -60 at night, wolves take turns running the caribou - who freeze their lungs and die by the number.

Oh yeah - wolves are great, they're our friends, just big 'police dogs' but with better attitudes, honest.

Ask the ass--le Farley Mowit or his fans.

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Re: Game spotted on drive to Yellowstone... [Re: DarylS]
      #208322 - 13/05/12 07:40 AM

He's not your average German Sheppard. His teeth are longer, sharper and he kills or doesn't eat. The greenies just don't get it.


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