Tag: bighorn sheep

A controversial provision in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act would grant the U.S. Air Force control over an additional 840,000 acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge...

Tired of having to stay put to avoid infection? It’s not just you. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department had planned to remove a bighorn sheep herd that was...

The National Park Service backed off plans to use aerial shooting to remove invasive mountain goats from Grand Teton National Park after Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon wrote a sharply worded...

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) are back on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota after a 150 year absence. Their translocation from the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Montana was...

Grand Teton National Park has approved a plan to remove mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) from the Teton Range. According to the plan announced on Tuesday, the goats, which are not...

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...

Graduate student Austin Wieseler earned the Outstanding M.S. Graduate Student Award from the South Dakota chapter of The Wildlife Society for his work on examining survival and mortality in the Badlands...

Arizona Game and Fish biologists euthanized three bighorn sheep that had been in contact with escaped domestic sheep. Regional supervisor Mike Sumner said it was needed to prevent disease from...

Moose (Alces alces) and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), pass on knowledge from generation to generation about where to find food on springtime migrations, researchers have found. Tracking 267 bighorns and...

Officials at Utah’s Zion National Park are asking visitors to listen for coughing bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelson). Biologists have say it could be a sign of pneumonia, which for...