Overhead, desert bighorn sheep cross U.S. Highway 93. The sheep aren’t headed to Las Vegas, like other travelers on the highway near Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border. The bighorn are using ...

Desert bighorn sheep are once again roaming the Franklin Mountains of far West Texas after a successful reintroduction by Texas Parks and Wildlife. The state agency recently moved 77 sheep from the ...

Nov. 26—AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) invites the greater El Paso community to come celebrate the reintroduction of desert bighorn sheep into their once-native range at ...

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, ...

Desert bighorn sheep once again roam the heights of the Franklin Mountains overlooking El Paso and the Borderlands. A herd of nearly 80 bighorn sheep were released for the first time as part of ...

Watch the release live below: UPDATE: A spokesperson for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says the release will be pushed back, it is likely to occur between 4 to 5 p.m. In a post on the ...

The desert bighorn sheep were loaded onto a trailer after the helicopter ride, then let loose in Franklin Mountains State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department A herd of 80 desert bighorn sheep ...