The brown coats of bighorn sheep and the blackish-brown coats of Stone's sheep blend with the rocks in their habitat. White coats of Dall's sheep lend with the snow or ice in their habitat. This is called camouflage - and excellent way to fool predators. Wild sheep cannot survive without safe, healthy places to live. To protect sheep habitat, people join clubs and work to make sure that roads, ski resorts, house-building, and other human activities do not harm or take away the places where wild sheep live.
People help repair damaged habitat, too.
They graze cattle carefully to protect wild sheep winter range. National parks and wildlife refuges provide safe, healthy places for wild sheep to live, too. Hunting is carefully controlled so that wild sheep populations remain healthy. The money collected from the sale of hunting licenses is returned directly to each state for use in wild sheep projects. With all these efforts, wild sheep should continue to be a noble and beautiful part of our natural world.