The Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon - Softcover

Jorgensen, Mark C; Young, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941384005 ISBN 13: 9781941384008

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, 2015

Synopsis

Desert Bighorn Sheep: Wilderness Icon is the most comprehensive photographic work on this elusive symbol of the deserts of the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Photographer Jeff Young worked for years to assemble tens of thousands of high quality photographs and assemble them into what is the finest collection of desert bighorn photos ever published. Author Mark Jorgensen brings his five decades of experience studying desert bighorn sheep and managing their habitat to provide the informative text of this book. The book's six chapters features some 200 high quality photographs featuring rare behavior, sheep in their rugged desert habitat, ewes nurturing newborn lambs, and massive rams in stunning ritualized combat for dominance. The text documents the struggle to provide habitat for the desert bighorn from Nuevo Leon west to Baja California, Mexico, and from Texas west to California. Today, well-regulated hunting programs in the United States and Mexico have generated millions of dollars in revenue, which has been directed to bighorn management and conservation programs.

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About the Author

Mark Jorgensen grew up hiking, camping, and hunting in the western states and western Mexico. He has been intrigued by desert bighorn sheep since he was 11 years old and has spent five decades studying and pursuing them throughout their range. He became a State Park Ranger for California State Parks after four summers studying desert bighorn for Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California. He went on to become the last Park Naturalist for California State Parks at Anza-Borrego, as well as a Resource Ecologist, and he finished his 36-year park career as the Superintendent of Anza-Borrego. He is a member of the Technical Staff of the Desert Bighorn Council, Inc., an advisor to the Bighorn Institute, and was an original member of the Federal Recovery Team for the endangered population of desert bighorn sheep in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California. He previously co-authored a book about Anza-Borrego and has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines. Jeff Young (Photographer) has been an avid photographer, backpacker, and traveler to South America, Mexico, and the American West for all of his adult life. Since retiring from a career in advertising and sales, Young has focused his photography solely on wildlife. In 2008, he took his first photo of a bighorn ram and became hooked, deciding to concentrate and specialize solely on desert bighorns. Six years later, he has taken literally thousands of photographs of bighorns, documenting their behavioral activity. Young’s determination and patience have allowed him to document rarely seen affectionate, playful, and sometimes violent behaviors of sheep. In 2010, the Anza-Borrego Foundation featured his bighorn photographs in an exhibit entitled “Wild and On the Edge,” and in 2013, the San Diego Natural History Museum selected one of his bighorn photographs for their “Best of Nature Photography” exhibit. This is his first book of photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941384005
• ISBN 13: 9781941384008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 143