Bighorn pneumonia is a very popular disease with anyone that wants to eliminate domestic sheep from the western United States.  Any time there is a bighorn pneumonia die off, ...

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

RIVERTON — Four decades ago, Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states — an estimated 2,500 animals.

Bighorn sheep are airlifted after being captured by the Nevada Department of Wildlife staff at Valley of Fire State Park on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. The wildlife department regularly uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least 20 desert bighorn sheep have died in a San Gorgonio mountain population in Southern California, 100 miles east of Los Angeles. The cause of death? Pneumonia, most likely from domestic ...

What caused a once thriving band of bighorn sheep in the Middle Missouri Breaks to vanish? Numerous studies have attempted to find clues to similar declines.

While bighorn sheep exist in other western mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada subgroup is genetically distinct—the remaining 350 sheep are all that remain of the species.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks announced Monday that hunting licenses inMissouri Breaks Hunting District 622 have been reduced after population decline that ...

A video that has been making rounds on social media all week shows two bewildered-looking bighorn sheep crossing Palm Canyon Drive.