City celebrates woolly heritage This southern Utah city was wild and woolly for a time Saturday morning as residents celebrated their heritage by herding more than 1,000 sheep down Main Street. The parade was part of the third annual Livestock and Heritage Festival, featuring sheep wagons, horses and an impressive collection of antique tractors and pioneer handcarts. The tractors also competed in a pulling event at the Cross Hollows Event Center. Shearing demonstrations with sheep dog herding competitions rounded out the event. About as many spectators as sheep lined the parade route to see the woolly animals that were guided by the crack of a herder's bull whip. The lamb and wool industry began in Cedar City in 1890 when livestock owners realized that the mountains east of Cedar City were ideally suited for sheep, offering meadows with plenty of grass, wild barley and larkspur, a flower toxic to cattle but tolerated by sheep. Warren Williams, one of the parade's grand marshals, and third-generation sheep rancher, said the sheep are taken into the mountains about the middle of June. Some are hauled in trucks to the ranchers' allotments and some follow the same trail used for a century. Williams, whose family has raised sheep for 100 years, said the sheep are brought down from the mountains in October and graze in fields west of Cedar City. In January they are trucked to Nevada where the winters are milder and brought back to Iron County three months later where the lambs are born in April....