In an effort to fill audio feed and amuse visitors, tour guides have told me some tales. It seems they point out the possibility of wildlife. Today I heard: see those three dots over there, those are Dall sheep. I’m supposed to be thrilled. Watsonville sheep are just as charming and charismatic. Long ago my stepdaughters raised two sheep for 4H and named them Woolly One and Dead Meat. The Dall sheep played a role in the founding of Denali NP by allowing themselves to be hunted to near extinction. Yes, strong men shot the innocent sheep because, as my stepdaughters know, raising sheep is a lot of work. Then Charles Sheldon rallied the Boone and Crockett Club members, among them Teddy Roosevelt, to set aside this area as a park and preserve. Sheldon shouted: “Shtop shooting sheep!” One Act of Congress later, 1.6 million acres of Mount McKinley Park were set aside in Alaska. Today the Park comprises over 6 million acres. Maybe the sheep have recovered, but I didn’t see them. Maybe those three dots were rocks.
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Love to read your travel comments. Keep them coming. Best wishes Gunter ________________________________
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It’s like in The Little Prince: the best sheep is the one you don’t see. The distant dots on the hillside, like the sheep in a box, can be whatever you imagine then to be. Apparently.
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