Utah has both bighorn sheep and mountain goats, but only the sheep live in the southern half of the state. Two species of bighorn sheep can be found here, the California Bighorn Sheep and the Desert ...

Two years later tragedy struck. The Alexander Mountain Fire started on July 29, 2024, burning up the Big Thompson Canyon, uncontained for nearly three weeks. The Alexander Mountain Fire resulted in ...

A rutting bighorn ram keeps a watchful eye as he pursues a receptive ewe at the Whiskey Basin Wildlife Habitat Management Area near Dubois. Bighorn sheep can be seen in their rut during the last two ...

Coming down into the valley from the Bighorn area I passed at least another 50 or so ewes, young rams and lambs that were ...

The process of domestication has largely eliminated the seasonal breeding cycle in many types of livestock, but most goats and sheep are still attuned to this ancient rhythm. The shorter days at the ...

Millions of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) once lived in the western United States. By 1900, though, bighorn numbers were reduced to a few hundred due to market hunting. In 1912, naturalist Ernest T.