Show rocky mountain sheep in captivity occasionally rocky hocky mountain Atoun tain gig big biorn sheep are to bo be seen on the ledges near the east rim of zion canyon rangers and ranker ranger naturalists natura lists have reported seeing them in different locations but aldys on oil tho the east side aide of the can vit tn last summer oitt was waa seen been ay ny several penpit in the valley mot ni tile tha south ent moun usi im sheep ai in i shy h aw an ordinarily 1 et to high mountains while no large bands have been seen we have est eat thi the tha total number in zion to bo be between 25 and 30 boad beail misti between tile tho east portal of 0 the tunnel on chak mt bit carmel cannel highway and the rim alin of canyon F former arnier superintendent ranger Sch for and I 1 saw six head near the natural bridge on bridge mountain in the summer of 0 1929 which Is the largett largest group seen so ao far as aa known on december comber De 22 1932 tile tho do abille brothers of rockville utah T tali while on a cattle roundup in par canyon discovered a two year owe ewe with their herd hard or of cattle they made several efforts to catel catch it with a lasso rope but were un successful the sheep stayed with the herd fiord for four miles and was arim into a corral with the cattle here the boys again tried to catch tile the sheep but the sheep was waa wise and stayed close to a cow when the demolles De Allies got too close it easily jumped over the corrall fence it seemed to have adopted a certain cow as it kept trying to get back in tile the corral where she was after some maneuvering one of the boys crawled on his hands and knees among the cattle and caught the sheep by a leg they kept it in an old log cabin over night then hauled it down to rockville in tin an old wagon the next lay day after it had been in captivity a few hours I 1 it seemed to have lost all fear ear of man and would eat vegetables vegetable I 1 anti and other forage out of ones hand it was brought to the park and lodged in the horse horab barn where it was kept until barch 7 and then was liberated it became very tamo tame and would get impatient unless fed ed at a tain time each lay day its diet consisted aisted of cabbage lettuce carrots and alfalfa liny hay with an occasional drink of milk alter after its liberation on march 7 no inure of it was waa seen but careful observe botis have shown that it lins hns occasionally returned to tho the barnuy barn by chief hanger D J jolley in alon bryce nature notes |