The Wildlife of Glacier National Park

For those that love the great outdoor, our country is lucky enough to offer incredible land with beautiful mountains, rivers, meadows and forests. If you enjoy the great outdoors, you can’t beat visiting one our nation’s national parks and Glacier National Park located in North Western Montana is one the more popular parks for visitors each year.

Glacier National Park not only offers some of the most beautiful landscape and vistas, but incredible wildlife and geographical structures. For those that come to look and be among the varied wildlife, one type of sheep definitely is a favorite- the bighorn sheep. The bighorn sheep of Glacier National Park are one of the big draws in the park. They get their name from obviously having big horns which can reach 42 inches or more in length. In addition, these sheep are quite good at mountain climbing and can be seen towering high above on the edges of steep cliffs.

The bighorn sheep of Glacier National Park saw their number dwindle from about 2 million a couple of hundred years ago to about 28K in the entire Northwest and about 800 in the park itself. To read more about this incredible sheep and the beauty of Glacier National Park, visit our main website today at the following link: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/

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Glacier National Park & the Big Horn Sheep

One of the great things about being an American is the wonderful national parks that are available for our leisure. One of the great parks America has to offer is Glacier National Park. With incredible sights, geographical features that inspire and wildlife that is pristine, there are few places that can top this uniquely American park. One of the most interesting wildlife found in the park is the Big Horn Sheep, while incredibly beautiful, this sheep is also endangered.

The Big Horn Sheep of Glacier National Park
The big horn sheep found in Glacier National Park are awe inspiring. Their horns can reach to a length of more than 42 inches and they can be spotted on incredibly high and steep cliffs just inches from the edge. Unfortunately, it was only about 200 years ago that there were about 2 million of these sheep in North American, today there are about 28K in North American and around 800 in Glacier National Park.

Read More About the Big Horn Sheep
For those interested in the Big Horn Sheep of Glacier National Park, the Smithsonian Magazine is offering an interesting article on the subject. To read it, please visit our main website at the following link: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/

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