MISSOULA, Mont. — A group of University of Montana researchers are in year two of a five-year study funded by Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks to track bighorn sheep and mountain goats. There is a ...

The Franklin Mountains goat, known as “Bob” to El Paso residents, has died. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department confirmed the casualty occurred when staff tried to relocate the goat ahead of the ...

Wildlife biology doctorate student Colton Padilla (left) assists other UM researchers and Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks staff during a winter bighorn sheep capture in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Colton ...

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and disturbances, a changing climate and growing recreation and human pressure.

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down car traffic to Mount Blue Sky in 2020, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance got a rare glimpse at how wildlife interacted with their ...