Montana’s 5,700 bighorn sheep population is below the 6,500 in 2007. The difference is even more pronounced in large die-offs in the Highlands, Rock Creek and Bitterroot, but offset by growth in ...

Nov. 26—AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) invites the greater El Paso community to come celebrate the reintroduction of desert bighorn sheep into their once-native range ...

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.

In Texas, about 50% of the bighorn sheep population was decimated in the last five years due to disease, biologists say.

In John Muir's 1894 book "The Mountains of California," he praised the "perfect strength and beauty" of the wild Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, "leaping unscathed from crag to crag." Those bighorn ...

In the rugged deserts of the Las Vegas Valley, a crisis unfolded in early 2025 that threatened the survival of the desert bighorn sheep. A brutal drought, stretching over 200 days without measurable ...

Carbon dating produced a date of 1,576 to 1,632 years ago. Epps’ DNA tests confirmed the pellets came from bighorn sheep. It put the bighorn introduction in a possibly better light, Wilder said.

People from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks moved 52 bighorn sheep to the Wolf Creek drainage area south of Cameron in Madison County on Tuesday.

A bighorn sheep is seen inside a trailer after being airlifted by the Nevada Department of Wildlife staff at Valley of Fire State Park on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

Montana’s 5,700 bighorn sheep population is below the 6,500 in 2007. The difference is even more pronounced in large die-offs in the Highlands, Rock Creek and Bitterroot, but offset by growth in ...

Bighorn sheep face death by avalanche in Sierra Nevada range Even as snow cover becomes less reliable, climate change may make deadly avalanches in the California range more frequent Date ...