YUMA — Wildlife officers — swooping out of the sky in helicopters and wielding net guns — snared fleet bighorn sheep in rugged mountains northeast of here Saturday. It was the first vital step in a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. | Dozens of bighorn sheep have a new home in southern Arizona but how they'll adjust to it is an open question. The Arizona Game and Fish Department on Monday released 31 bighorns in ...

MORENCI, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) and Freeport McMoRan have teamed up to translocate Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep from the Morenci mine to safer areas, reducing ...

It was bighorn against bighorn last summer when a wildfire burned more than 100,000 acres of the Catalina Mountains, charring the forest and spreading smoke across the Tucson valley. The Bighorn fire ...

Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep have found a haven from predators at the Morenci copper mine in Arizona. State wildlife managers are relocating the sheep to prevent overpopulation and potential accidents ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — More hikers trekking through the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson have noticed the presence of the bighorn sheep, showing that an effort to reintroduce the animals is paying ...

In 2013, Arizona Game and Fish began its on-going program to reintroduce bighorn sheep to the Santa Catalina Mountains. At the time, 31 of them were relocated to the area from Yuma. More than half of ...