A bighorn sheep ewe perched on a rocky slope. Federal land managers are asking rock climbers to avoid Long Canyon near Moab for most of the spring to help bighorn sheep during a "critical" time in ...

My respect for bighorn sheep is enormous. As far as I’m concerned, no animal has better eyesight or a greater ability to elude the hunter. The odds on merely seeing a legal ram, much less killing one, ...

Nevada designated the desert bighorn sheep as its state animal in 1973, citing its toughness and ability to survive extreme desert conditions. After dropping to about 2,000 animals in the 1960s, ...

BILLINGS – In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck ...

State biologists called 2023 the worst year in more than a decade for bighorn sheep. State biologists called 2023 the worst year in more than a decade for bighorn sheep. Produced by Andrea Kramar and ...

The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species. Bulldozers, ...