Rocky Mountain big horn sheep. George Wuerthner. Bighorn sheep acquired their name for the large circular horns of the mature rams. They are strongly associated with mountain terrain, particularly ...

For over a century, domestic sheep have grazed a 101,676-acre allotment of public land in the San Juan Mountains surrounding Silverton to the north, east and south. Ernie Etchart, a Montrose-based ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana State University Extension will hold several free, public meetings in May to discuss the Wild and Domestic Sheep Comingling Project. According to a press release, "the ...

Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, afflicted with pneumonia as the cold skies of winter set in. Here in northeastern ...

The intermixing, evidenced by DNA extracted from a collection of old skulls housed at Lewiston, points to a not-too-distant ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a new rule last week intended to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn sheep. The ...

JACKSON — The Bridger-Teton National Forest will not imminently allow woolgrowers to herd domestic sheep back onto portions of the Wyoming Range near where a bighorn sheep herd roams, a mix that could ...

OKANOGAN, Wash. – Bighorn sheep in central Washington could be in danger if domestic sheep continue to graze nearby. That’s the concern from two groups suing the U.S. Forest Service. Domestic sheep or ...

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Domestic sheep and goats can pass a deadly bacteria to bighorns. That’s prompted concern about the wild animals in Oregon and Washington. Domesicated sheep grazing on allotments in the Northwest, like ...

There are new regulatory changes to the Wildlife Act to help safeguard West Kootenay wild sheep from disease transmitted from ...

Stone Age humans were raising and slaughtering domesticated sheep in Central Asia three thousand years before previously thought, new research shows. The findings suggest the Fergana Valley played an ...