BOZEMAN — Last year, metal sculptor Clinton Lesh turned heads with a towering 12-foot jackalope. This year, his creation was even larger: an 8,000-pound woolly mammoth.

“The tusks — I made them bigger than historically they should be, but I think it turned out really well,” Lesh said.

Pictured: Clinton Lesh in front of his mammoth sculpture (photo credit: MTN News)

Lesh has spent nearly a decade turning sparks and metal scraps into large-scale works of art. He earned a degree in art from Montana State University, where he forged a connection with renowned Montana sculptor Jim Dolan — creator of the “Blue Horses” in Three Forks and numerous other celebrated pieces across the state.

The jackalope Lesh created last year , was “kind of our Big Foot of eastern Montana. As a little kid you

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