California is home to two subspecies of bighorn sheep: desert bighorn and Sierra Nevada bighorn. Here's how you can spot them ...

The desert bighorn sheep were once native to El Paso in the late 1800s, however due to unregulated hunting, resource competition from domestic sheep/goats, and disease, native desert bighorns were ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A new survey has found a sharp decline in desert bighorn sheep in Southern California, and biologists suspect the cause is a disease contracted from domestic animals. March 15 ...

The subspecies that was the focus of this relocation operation, the desert bighorn sheep, was classified as endangered in 2000, per the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Desert bighorn sheep in 2021 at Lake Mead in Nevada, a state with a successful track record in rewilding the animal. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times ...

Alberta is home to 9,000 bighorn sheep, 6,000 of which live on provincial lands that are eligible for harvest and another 3,000 that stay in protected areas. (Submitted by Samuel Deakin) ...

There are only approximately 80,000 North American bighorn sheep on the continent currently — much less than the between 150,000 and 200,000 that existed before the 1800’s.

There are only approximately 80,000 North American bighorn sheep on the continent currently — much less than the between 150,000 and 200,000 that existed before the 1800’s.