Factors to consider when reprovisioning Water developments used by mountain sheep

California Fish and Game

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 153-159

  Bleich, Vernon C ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

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OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

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