Bighorn sheep once numbered in the hundreds of thousands across the West. Osborn Russell, a fur trapper who traveled widely across the Rocky Mountain West in the 1830s, observed “thousands” of ...

Two sheep dogs' attack on a Colorado mountain biker has prompted ranchers in the West to seek better ways to manage the large dogs that protect their herds against predators.

Two sheep dogs’ attack on a Colorado mountain biker has prompted ranchers in the West to seek better ways to manage the large dogs that protect their herds against predators. The American Sheep ...

For the past two decades, Antelope Island’s bighorn sheep supplied animals that re-established herds in mountain ranges all over Utah’s West Desert. Central to that success was the herd’s ...

Even for bighorn sheep, an animal that survives in some of the harshest terrain in the West, the Teton Range herd is tough. They live year-round between 8,500 and 11,000 feet, where winter ...

What the great Texas bighorn sheep experiment tells us about rewilding the West Desert bighorn sheep in 2021 at Lake Mead in Nevada, a state with a successful track record in rewilding the animal ...

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 ...

Sheep Mountain viewed from 12 miles west of Laramie. KIM VINER/COURTESY PHOTO; Smaller portion of Sheep Mountain Game Refuge south of Fox Creek. There is a burned area in the upper left.

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 ...

Two sheep dogs' attack on a Colorado mountain biker has prompted ranchers in the West to seek better ways to manage the large dogs that protect their herds against predators.