“These translocations are great because AZGFD is able to boost the numbers of wild Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and also ...

Things you may spot in downtown Palm Springs: Tourists and local residents strolling along Palm Canyon Drive, a towering Marilyn Monroe striking a pose and ... bighorn sheep engaging in some retail ...

A visitor to Utah’s Zion National Park recently shared images from a trip in March, when she observed bighorn sheep from a highway turnout. Some of Kris Clifford’s images are closeups, but one ...

Scientists say the population of endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep appears to have stabilized after suffering devastating losses during the record-breaking winter of 2022-2023. Tom Stephenson, ...

Millions of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) once lived in the western United States. By 1900, though, bighorn numbers were reduced to a few hundred due to market hunting. In 1912, naturalist Ernest T.

Bighorn sheep have become a rarity in Texas, but a group of wildlife biologists are on a mission to rescue the species. About 50% of the state's bighorn sheep population was decimated in the last five ...

My friend Bob and I had stopped to rest during a hike in Icehouse Canyon near Mt. Baldy and were having an uncharacteristically quiet moment when we heard rocks tumbling nearby. We scanned the steep ...

RIVERTON — Four decades ago, Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states – an estimated 2,500 animals. By the early 1990s, disease – particularly ...

Recent sheep counts in all three herds along the southern rim of the Coachella Valley have looked pretty good of late, but ...

Few hunting experiences are as rugged, challenging and elusive as stalking a bighorn sheep. Interested Wyoming residents typically wait decades, if not even a lifetime, before drawing a ram license in ...