DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (KTNV) — Researchers at Oregon State University are collaborating with the National Park Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to study the movement and ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Researchers are looking at bighorn sheep in Death Valley National Park to study links between movement, genetics, and disease. Researchers say diseases pose one the largest threats ...

A mysterious disease is raging through the wild sheep of the Bighorn Mountains. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department, which reported the outbreak, said that the disease has killed at least 45 animals ...

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

Wildlife officials from Idaho, Washington and Oregon are monitoring a new outbreak of pneumonia that is killing wild bighorn sheep in the northern end of Hells Canyon. Preliminary data indicates the ...

For the second time in three years, a pneumonia outbreak in a Yakima-area bighorn sheep herd is prompting the state wildlife department to kill some or perhaps even all the diseased sheep to prevent ...

Ernie Etchart’s family has raised sheep in the San Juan mountains for more than 70 years, taking the herd of thousands every summer to the green, open meadows of the high country to graze. But the ...

How many bighorn sheep can the greater Hells Canyon region support? Not too many years ago, that question might have seemed absurd to wildlife managers. Bighorn numbers were stagnant at best. A ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — In summer 2021, Badlands National Park was home to a healthy and growing population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, with approximately 300 total among the three herds. Then in ...