Thinhorn refers to the rare Stone’s sheep of northwest Canada and more common Dall’s sheep that live in Canada, the Yukon and Alaska. They are distantly related to the bighorn sheep that live ...

Management implications of highly resolved hierarchical population genetic structure in thinhorn sheep. Conservation Genetics, 2018; DOI: 10.1007/s10592-018-1123-2 ...

OPINION: Alaska, home to 25 percent of North America's wild sheep, needs to protect that population from domestic respiratory disease.

The paper, "Management implications of highly resolved hierarchical population genetic structure in thinhorn sheep," was published in Conservation Genetics (doi: 10.1007/s10592-018-1123-2).

The Yukon government introduced the new rules in 2018 to reduce the risk of wild thinhorn sheep and mountain goats being exposed to a pathogen, Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae (M. ovi), that can lead to ...