Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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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