A biologist discovered a decomposing bighorn sheep tangled in concertina wire recently strung in Imperial County, part of an ...

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I grabbed my camera and inched forward in my truck. I spotted furry white rumps on the winding road ahead and was fairly sure they were bighorn sheep. I slowly rounded the bend and smiled in delight.

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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 ...

Join NWPB reporter Rachel Sun to learn about bighorn sheep restoration in the northwest. Members of the Hells Canyon Initiative gathered Dec. 8 on the Idaho side of Hells Canyon south of Lewiston, ...

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 ...

The high peaks of the southern and central Sierra Nevada are home to a unique and endangered animal, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. John Muir called them “the bravest of all the Sierra mountaineers, ...

The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species. Bulldozers, ...

Kim Keating / USGS Bighorn sheep and domestic sheep love to hang out and get nose-to-nose with each other. That’s a problem. Domestic sheep can carry a pathogen that’s highly contagious, and often ...