Tom Stephenson, leader of the bighorn recovery program with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, acknowledged the complexity of protecting all three animals. "There's a limit to how … to ...

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 ...

On a triple-digit day last August, several trucks drove hundreds of miles through the remote desert landscape of the Newberry Mountains south of Interstate 40 near Barstow, each loaded with a giant ...

The Washington Wild Sheep Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of people responsible for killing a yearling bighorn sheep ram Saturday near Asotin. Officials ...

Jason Curry, then-deputy director of the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, hikes on Fremont Island while giving journalists a tour on Oct. 21, 2021. Fremont Island could become a ...

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 ...

Drought is impacting the bighorn sheep living at the Muddy Mountains in Valley of Fire State Park. Drought is impacting the bighorn sheep living at the Muddy Mountains in Valley of Fire State Park. We ...

A group of hikers in the San Gabriel Mountains recently encountered a rare sighting: a large family of bighorn sheep. As seen in images posted by the Instagram account @lahikes on May 29, hikers ...

Jose Etchart spotted them from a helicopter on a mild October morning – a group of 30 or so desert bighorn sheep scaling the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, just north of Smugglers Pass. The sheep’s ...