Tag: sheep

Domestic sheep grazing is being limited around the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sheep Experiment Station in the Centennial Mountains along the Idaho-Montana border, after a federal court ruling issued earlier...

For Dall’s sheep, environmental factors in the alpine regions they occupy play critical roles in their survival. In some regions, like the western Brooks Range in Alaska, major declines in...

While bighorn sheep restoration became common after the species faced population declines in the 1900s, researcher recently found that restored populations differ from native sheep in one significant way. They...

Catherine Driscoll was hiking with her father in the Never Summer Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains. They were collecting bighorn sheep’s fecal pellet samples to study their genetic variation,...