While traveling the AlCan Highway through British Columbia we had a wonderful opportunity to spend a few weeks photographing the area around Summit Lake and further north. This area abounds with wildlife as well as beautiful landscapes.
One species that I found a great pleasure in photographing was the Stone's sheep (Ovis dalli stonei). Stone's sheep are generally found in the upper 1/3 of British Columbia and into parts of the Yukon. Many of the sheep found in the
Yukon are intermixed with their white cousins, Dall Sheep.Although Stone's sheep are often called Dall sheep or white sheep, their coloring ranges from a dark gray almost black to lighter shades of gray and brown.
Stone's sheep have a little heavier horn than Dall sheep and tend to be a heavier animal. The name Stone's sheep comes from explorer Andrew Stone who brought the first specimen to the US from B.C. in 1886.

 

 

 

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