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The most popular subjects are bighorn sheep, deer, and antelope. [citation needed] A November 2007 Los Angeles Times' Travel feature article includes it within a top 15 list of California places to visit. [4] The area was also mentioned in Groupon's "10 Most Unique Autumn Festivals in the Country" [5] as a part of the Ridgecrest Petroglyph ...
Bighorn Canyon provides habitat for at least 231 species of birds. [34] Bighorn sheep, black bear, mule deer, mountain lions, pronghorn, coyotes, beavers, and marmots are among the species that live in the varied climates in the recreation area.
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons are two principal landforms within which are found major accumulations of Paleo-Indian and/or Native American Petroglyphs, or rock art, by the Coso People located in the Coso Range Mountains of the northern Mojave Desert, and now within the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, near the towns of China Lake and Ridgecrest, California. [3]
In the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area book, storyteller Old Coyote describes a legend related to the bighorn sheep. A man possessed by evil spirits attempts to kill his heir by pushing the young man over a cliff, but the victim is saved by getting caught in trees. Rescued by bighorn sheep, the man takes the name of their leader, Big Metal.
East of Salida, the highway enters a deep canyon, dubbed Bighorn Sheep Canyon. There are several small communities in the canyon including Howard, Coaldale and Cotopaxi. The major industries in the canyon are fishing and river rafting. US 50 looking west entering Howard. Near mile marker 267, the highway crosses the river.
“I think it’s collectively our responsibility to make sure the bighorns that we have now ... are here to stay,” a Texas Parks and Wildlife volunteer said
The Arkansas, Colorado, post office opened on June 16, 1880, but was renamed Salida on March 28, 1881. [10] Salida, meaning "exit" in Spanish, was named on account of its location near the point where the Arkansas River flows out of the valley and into Bighorn Sheep Canyon, upstream from the Royal Gorge. [11]
The canyon, one of the natural attractions of the greater Palm Springs area of the Coachella Valley, [2] is known for its "colorful layered rock walls and palm tree oases." [3] The reserve was established in 1975, [4] in part because the spring is an important water source for desert bighorn sheep. [5]