My respect for bighorn sheep is enormous. As far as I’m concerned, no animal has better eyesight or a greater ability to elude the hunter. The odds on merely seeing a legal ram, much less killing one, ...

Disease, drought and predators like mountain lions have all been blamed for the herd’s demise. Unfortunately, large die-offs ...

Researchers in the Bitterroot Valley have seen significant mortality in bighorn sheep over the winter, with all collared rams ...

Missteps occurred too: A herd transplanted near Van Horn was nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded aoudad ...