All it took was a crumbly shard of shale cascading down a steep cliff face to force me to look upward into the blue skies ...

One of the world’s most productive copper mines is also one of Arizona’s most reliable sources of Rocky Mountain bighorn ...

Two big rams bolted from the steel trailer, took a few hesitant steps and glanced around nervously at their new home: dramatic mountains in west Texas more than 200 miles from where they grew up.

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In one dramatic moment near Colorado Springs, a square 70-foot-wide net dropped, and about 20 bighorn sheep were captured, much to their surprise. Colorado Parks and Wildlife workers hustled in and ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) - Friends of the Desert Mountains and local partners, including the Bighorn Institute, are continuing efforts to protect endangered desert Bighorn sheep by educating hikers ...

To improve lifetime reproductive success, maternal ungulates should pursue behavioral strategies that reduce risk of offspring mortality. Predation is a leading cause of neonatal mortality; thus, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Bighorn sheep are thriving five years after returning to Antelope Island, but herds could spread out to another Great Salt Lake island someday under a proposed change to the state's ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month and a ...