In the rugged deserts of the Las Vegas Valley, a crisis unfolded in early 2025 that threatened the survival of the desert bighorn sheep. A brutal drought, stretching over 200 days without measurable ...

Volunteers with the Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep install a rain collection system and artificial water ...

Bighorn sheep were introduced into North Dakota’s Badlands in 1956, and after a few ups and downs over the years, the ...

The bag limit is one male bighorn sheep that is half curl or less. Half curl is defined as having at least one “unbroomed” horn that does not extend past an imaginary line beginning at the ...

Montana lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday lifting the prohibition on collecting bighorn sheep horns.

Bighorn sheep are stocky, muscular animals known for their massive curled horns and impressive climbing abilities. They can be found scattered around southern British Columbia, western Alberta, and ...

Forces as old as South Dakota itself are clashing at the base of Elk Mountain, where a third-generation rancher is locking horns with government wildlife officials over the bighorn sheep that have ...

All of the 77 big horn sheep relocated to the Franklin Mountains have tracking collars. Rangers use hand-held antenna devices to find them in the field.

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 ...

Bighorn sheep are roaming wild in the Catalina Mountains once more. Thirty-one of the fleet, agile animals — captured in rugged mountains near Yuma over the weekend — were released early ...

Tom Lucas smoothes down the edge of a bighorn sheep horn he's cut and bent to be half of a bighorn sheep bow on Tuesday morning, November 20, 2012. By fixing the file to his work table and moving ...

Peninsular bighorn sheep can get water from cacti, splitting the spiny barrel cactus with their horns and eating its watery insides. But thanks to sprawl and agribusiness, both sheep and succulent are ...