Abraham is said to have grazed his sheep on its slopes and donated their milk to the local poor.
His favorite and longest-running case involved protecting a small finch-billed bird, the palila, by removing wild goats and sheep from the slopes of a volcano.
I paused to inspect a cut on my shin and noticed that, us aside, there were no buildings, no people, not even any sheep, just jagged slopes softening into rumpled hills, all the way to the blue-rinsed horizon.
A steep slope, where sheep tracks had created terraces of deeper soil, seemed to be humming and shimmering.
On the south-facing slope, the sheep mainly disrupted the soil crust in the intershrub area.
On the north-facing slope, the sheep reduced shrub patch size as they trampled the soil mounds under the shrubs and browsed the shrub canopy.
Preparatory factors responsible for the spatial debris-slide distribution are aspect, slope angle, sheep density, plan curvature and altitude, while influence of the remaining factors is negligible.
A statue of a pensive Saint Patrick, depicted as a shepherd with a staff and a sheep, stared down the slope outside.
Blackwater Creek originates on the north slope of Sheep Mesa at an altitude of 11400 feet in Shoshone National Forest and flows north through Blackwater Canyon.
Sun lit up vast banks of broom on the Black Isle and the green slopes where sheep grazed its fertile soil.
This is sheep country, and on sloping, heavily grazed turf the researchers found that the "soak-in" rate was close to zero.
