Sierra Club Monthly Meeting: Desert Bighorn Sheep
Mark Jorgensen brings his five decades of experience studying desert bighorn sheep and managing their habitat to provide this informative presentation, including high quality desert bighorn photographs by Jeff Young.
The photos feature rare behavior of the elusive sheep in their rugged desert habitat, ewes nurturing newborn lambs, and massive rams in stunning ritualized combat for dominance. Mark has documented the struggle to provide habitat for the desert bighorn from Nuevo Leon west to Baja California, Mexico, and from Texas west to California.
Mark Jorgensen grew up hiking, camping, and hunting in the western states and western Mexico. 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. Info: 858-569-6005.