Show Desert Mountain Sheep The Desert Mountain sheep lives U in the most severe environment oi of any of the Bighorn sheep of North America In much of its range permanent water holes are 30 to 50 miles apart and about these the life of these hardy animals must center during most of the year The desert mountain ranges which are their homes are low rugged hot rocky territory Vegetation Vegetation Vegetation Vege Vege- tation is sparse and the whole terrain terrain ter ter- ter rain is the most forbidding occupied by any major species of big game came That the animals can find sustenance sustenance nance there where the annual precipitation precipitation pre pre- may amount to less than three inches is astonishing |