Discover how WDFW's upcoming helicopter surveys will shed light on the impact of the Movi outbreak on bighorn sheep ...

It's about 8 a.m. on a bitingly cold December morning on the Idaho side of Hells Canyon. Wildlife biologists are pulling medical gear from large plastic boxes near the banks of the Snake River when ...

That's bad news for bighorn sheep that live there, according to new research to be presented at AGU's 2024 Annual Meeting. Ned Bair, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara ...

Those bighorn sheep are now an endangered species. After surmounting its first threats -- diseases from and overgrazing by domestic sheep settlers introduced to the Sierra Nevada -- the species ...

Desert bighorn sheep are once again roaming the Franklin Mountains of far West Texas after a successful reintroduction by ...

El Paso icon Bob the Goat died from the stress of capture while tethered by its horns to a tree in the Franklin Mountains, a ...

TPWF explained that the desert bighorn sheep is highly susceptible to the disease and in recent years many of the bighorns have been dying as they are infected by other sheep, such as the exotic ...

Seeing sheep flying through the sky in Texas may be less rare than one would think! The Texas Parks and Wildlife shared a video on social media of a group of endangered desert bighorn sheep being ...

For the first time in nearly a century, bighorn sheep are returning to the Franklin Mountains, marking a significant milestone in conservation efforts for the region. Texas Parks and Wildlife, in ...

“Here it is pretty safe because we do not have any exotic sheep that might be carrying the disease.” For centuries the desert bighorn sheep played an important part in the ecology and ...

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 ...