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Ram, 1910. Carl Rungius (1869 – 1959). Pencil on paper.
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Bighorn sheep in the Absaroka Mountains
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Conservation groups filed objections this week to the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed final management plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests in western Colorado. The plan would allow commercial logging on more than 772,000 acres of public lands, including mature and old-growth trees — a 66% increase from the current forest plan.
“A sizeable area of our beloved forests could be sacrificed to commercial logging at the expense of our already dwindling wilderness areas, wildlife habitat and recreation,” said Chad Reich with High Country Conservation Advocates. “Outdoor recreation is a far larger economic driver for our communities than the local timber industry that benefits from cutting these forests. The Forest Service would’ve known that if it had conducted an economic analysis, as required by law.”
Under the proposed plan mature and old-growth forests, which store massive amounts of carbon, could be commercially logged. Forest managers would not be required to identify and protect old-growth and mature trees. Steep slopes across the forests, including Upper Taylor Canyon and Slate River Valley, could also be logged despite the high risk of severe erosion and threats to water quality.
“The proposed plan directly violates federal policy on protecting mature and old-growth trees as a cornerstone of U.S. climate action,” said Alison Gallensky, conservation geographer with Rocky Mountain Wild. “The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests boast the highest carbon sequestration capacity of any national forest in the Rocky Mountain region. Despite this the Forest Service has failed to ensure these vital carbon sinks aren’t logged and sold.”
Objections also challenged the Forest Service’s failure to take urgently needed climate action by prohibiting new coal leasing in the plan.
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The Forest Service recommended adding only 46,200 acres of new wilderness area in the final plan. The community’s conservation proposal had called for more than 324,000 acres of new wilderness lands. In addition, the Gunnison Public Lands Initiative offered a broadly supported proposal for new wilderness and special management areas in Gunnison County that was mostly excluded.
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“Community members proposed special management area designations to protect pristine forestlands in the North Fork Valley from logging and oil and gas drilling,” said Peter Hart, legal director at Wilderness Workshop. “The Forest Service ignored those proposals and chose not to protect those areas in the new plan.”
The groups also raised concerns about the plan’s failure to address the myriad needs of plants and animals that depend on the forests.
“Over 20 years ago Colorado Parks and Wildlife reintroduced Canada lynx to the San Juan Mountains,” said Rocky Smith, a long-time forest management analyst. “This is a great source of pride for wildlife lovers in this state. Lynx are federally threatened and depend on mature forests with large trees. This plan allows for logging that could easily degrade or destroy much of the best habitat for lynx and their main prey, snowshoe hares, and undermine Colorado’s hard work to reestablish and maintain a viable lynx population.”
The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests also provide habitat for the iconic bighorn sheep and lesser-known species like the Grand Junction milkvetch and the Tundra buttercup. These species, among others, need special designation the Forest Service grants to plants and animals when there is concern about their ability to survive in the area. Many struggling plants and animals were left off the list in the proposed final plan.
“Without the species of conservation concern designation the Forest Service has no obligation to make sure the plants and animals continue to exist locally,” said Chris Krupp, public lands attorney with WildEarth Guardians. “In many cases, the agency decided not to designate wildlife, plants or fish merely because it had no data on their population trends. Without species of conservation concern designation, the number of bighorn sheep in GMUG could dwindle down to almost nothing and the agency wouldn’t have to do anything about it.”
#ecology#enviromentalism#old growth forest#colorado#us forest service#lynx#bighorn sheep#grand mesa#Uncompahgre#gunnison#national forest
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Bighorn rams battling for dominance
By: Unknown photographer
From: Wildlife of the Deserts
1980
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A bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in California, USA
by Michael Loyd
#bighorn sheep#sheep#bovines#ovis canadensis#ovis#caprinae#bovidae#artiodactyla#mammalia#chordata#wildlife: california#wildlife: usa#wildlife: north america
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From Stardust to Stardust
Bighorn sheep & Barn owl :D
Prints and tattoos are available in my shop :)
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#barn owl#owl#bighorn sheep#sheep#horns#artofmaquenda#vulture culture#circle of life#art#macare art#from stardust to stardust#stardust#carl sagan#nature#death#decay
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The Mountaineers - Big Horn Sheep on Wilcox Pass (1912) | Carl Rungius
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Tribes of the Colville Confederacy in Washington State are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community.
#good news#indigenous led conservation#bighorn sheep#Tribes of the Colville Confederacy#washington#usa#science#nature#environment#animals#conservation#endangered animals#endangered species
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foothills wanderer
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ARIEZ - Fursona redesign! 🐏
#art#my art#furry#fursona#athro#persona#anthro art#furry art#ref#character design#referance#oc#original character#my oc#bighorn sheep#bunny#sheep anthro#bunny anthro#sheep#ram
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Olaf C. Seltzer (1877 – 1957), King of the Mountain, oil on canvas, 16 × 24 inches.
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A Bighorn ewe moves quietly through tall sage, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
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Under 40 min studies
Bighorn sheep , Commerson’s Dolphins , Red deer buck
#illustration#art study#art#ungulates#bighorn sheep#dolphin#red deer#bovidae#cetacea#cervidae#painting
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Bighorn sheep
By: Unknown photographer
From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge
1973
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Bighorn sheep!
[ID: an illustration of a bighorn sheep leaping to the left with its head down in a ramming pose. It is on a light teal background with spiky emphasizing shapes. End.]
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