One of the other major Badlands National Park wildlife species is the bighorn sheep. In the mid-60s to the 80s, 13 bighorn sheep roamed free in the park. What’s truly incredible about bighorn sheep is ...

One of the other major Badlands National Park wildlife species is the bighorn sheep. In the mid-60s to the 80s, 13 bighorn sheep roamed free in the park. What’s truly incredible about bighorn sheep is ...

Without fail, when I think about bighorn sheep in North Dakota, big game biologist Brett Weidmann pops into my head. For good reason. Brett is the Game and Fish Department’s bighorn guru and has ...

People like to think the more animals on the landscape, the better. And it’s easy to see the basis for that argument. Before European settlers, between 1.5 million and 2 million bighorn sheep ...

Bighorn sheep, with their massive curled horns and stoic appearance, are one of Montana’s iconic big game species. If you take a drive down U.S. Highway 93 this time of year, along the banks of ...

Tom Besser has authored some disheartening reports when it comes to pneumonia infections in bighorn sheep. In 2021, the now retired Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology professor at ...

Theodore Roosevelt also hunted the Badlands for bighorn sheep during his time spent in North Dakota. ADVERTISEMENT. From Roosevelt’s time in the 1880s to the first decade of the 1900s, ...

BIG ARM — The first of up to 60 bighorn sheep on Wild Horse Island received their eviction notices Wednesday morning.

Another bighorn sheep has died in the Santa Catalina Mountains — this one on the eve of a planned transplant of an additional 30 bighorns to the range next week, state wildlife officials reported.

A Bighorn sheep navigates a treacherous rock formation in Badlands National Park. The park is home to exceptional views, wildlife, fossils, and the rich history of the Oglala Lakota people.

Fifty-five bighorn sheep from the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation were transferred to North Dakota and Utah in January in a unique, privately funded project.