Walls of Sierra Wildlife; A Migrating Mural

Remember the Migrating mural you saw here a few months ago; the big butterfly on a wall in the city of San Francisco? Long before I spotted that one in The City, I had seen another of the series; a sprawling one in the Eastern Sierra, this one talking about the local Bighorn Sheep. However, what you see here is not just a mural of a Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep; there are representations of other Sierra wildlife, too.

For this edition of Monday Mural, we trip to the Eastern Sierra region in California. The Eastern Sierra is the drier, eastern part of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which itself is on the eastern side of the state.

The Sierra Nevada Big Horn Sheep

If you look at the Migrating mural on the walls of the Mono Basin Visitor Center in Lee Vining, you will see a ram being chased by a mountain lion and some topography lines in the background. This mural intends to throw light on the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep, its habitat and its predator. It takes us to Mt. Warren, a peak in this part of the Sierras, and shows us that sheep here sometimes fall prey to the mountain lion.

This artwork is said to be a part of a series of murals planned on the Sierra Nevada Big Horn Sheep, and to be painted along US 395, marking the migration path of this kind of sheep.

Although the lion and the big horn sheep make the plot of this story, there are silhouettes of other animals that — I believe — are the fauna of the Mono Basin, which lies at the foot of the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada.

The larger picture features a pika, a (black-tailed) jackrabbit, a great-horned owl, a pronghorn antelope, an American Black Bear, an Osprey, a Mountain Quail, an American badger, some quail and also a Greater Sage Grouse.

… and other Eastern Sierra Wildlife

Migrating

This mural with the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep and the other animals of the Eastern Sierra and Mono Basin like I mentioned before, is a part of the Migrating murals by Ink Dwell Studio. It was painted by Jane Kim and she was assisted by Sierra Helvey and Julie Rolfe. And it looks like the mural was created in 2014.

The Migrating Murals is a project headed by Jane Kim, a scientific artist from San Francisco. The idea is to use art to portray and talk about different animals and their migration corridors.

Have you spotted a Migrating mural, yet?

In case you missed it, here’s the —
Monarch Butterfly (Migrating) Mural

Linking to —
Monday Mural on Colourful World
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Murals on Tipsy from the TRIP