In case of a bighorn sheep emergency, call the Bighorn Institute at 760-346-7334. If you are unable to reach the institute, call Erin Schaeffer with California Fish and Wildlife at 760-628-4022.

A visitor to Utah’s Zion National Park recently shared images from a trip in March, when she observed bighorn sheep from a highway turnout. Some of Kris Clifford’s images are closeups, but one ...

Bighorn sheep migrate on long journeys, following a wave of green as plants come to life. Instinct doesn't teach this, but culture does. Bighorn sheep, like this ram photographed in Montana's ...

Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states – an estimated 2,500 ...

He pulled the trigger, the sheep dropped, and the work to pack out some of the most delicious meat he’d ever eaten began. Dahlke’s sheep hunt wasn’t a result of beating the odds. He hadn’t ...

In the summer of 2023, researchers found that half of the bighorn sheep that were being tracked had died in the previous winter. Most were victims of avalanches, starvation, or mountain lions.

Join NWPB reporter Rachel Sun to learn about bighorn sheep restoration in the northwest. Members of the Hells Canyon Initiative gathered Dec. 8 on the Idaho side of Hells Canyon south of Lewiston ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife nets bighorn sheep to create new herd 03:05. In one dramatic moment near Colorado Springs, a square 70-foot-wide net dropped, and about 20 bighorn sheep were captured ...

Desert bighorn sheep, which have inhabited the southwest for more than 12,000 years, have smaller bodies but longer legs and shorter coats than their Rocky Mountain relatives.