Federal land managers are asking rock climbers to avoid climbing in a canyon near Moab for most of the spring because it ...

Two big rams bolted from the steel trailer, took a few hesitant steps and glanced around nervously at their new home: dramatic mountains in west Texas more than 200 miles from where they grew up.

Bighorn males, called rams ... help them move easily about rocky, rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet only to mate. Rams live in bachelor ...

The current world-record archery bighorn measures 209 1/8 inches and was taken in Pennington County, South Dakota, in 2018.

Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep learn to leap from crag to crag in early lambhood, developing quickly into keen-eyed, strong-limbed and extremely agile creatures, always on the move to escape mountain ...

Utah is home to about 3,000 desert bighorn sheep and 1,500 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officials reported in 2024. Meanwhile, it's not uncommon for some of ...

The desert bighorn, distinct from its Rocky Mountain cousin, ranges from the Chihuahuan Desert here to Utah, Nevada and the ... N.M. This wild sheep was thought to be foundational to life in ...

A bighorn sheep ewe perched on a rocky slope. Federal land managers are asking rock climbers to avoid Long Canyon near Moab for most of the spring to help bighorn sheep during a "critical" time in ...