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"Beef Trail" historic marker. Marker inscription. "The hillside below the cliffs is managed as a wildlife winter range. Elk and deer in the Big Horn Mountains live at high elevations during the summer, but move down to the lower areas during the winter. The Forest Service helps maintain this winter range by supervising use of domestic sheep and cattle, and by conducting periodic prescribed fires to encourage the growth of essential forage plants.
Look on the hillside for the thin line of the “Beef Trail”, a livestock drive trail. This has been used for many years by domestic cattle and sheep traveling from their winter range in Shell Valley to the summer pastures high in the Bighorn National Forest
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Nothing like striking a pose. This was my first trip back to the Bighorns in 17 years and if I dont feel as proud as I look. This is looking down the Shell Canyon at a turn-off on the way up the mtn.
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SHELL CANYON
US 14 / Bighorn Scenic Byway
Bighorn National Forest
Shell
Wyoming
WY