Tag: bighorn sheep

May 7, 2018

Zinke proposes extended mining ban on bighorn sheep habitat

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed extending a ban on mineral extraction on Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) wintering grounds in Wyoming. The ban would exempt more than 1,400...

February 1, 2018

JWM: Pneumonia ‘spillover’ challenges bighorn efforts

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) once occupied much of the Western landscape, but in the centuries since European settlers arrived, pneumonia has reduced or wiped out populations and put the species...

September 5, 2017

Zion National Park requests comments on bighorn sheep

Zion National Park and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have opened a public review and comment period for the environmental assessment (EA) on the proposed relocation of desert bighorn sheep...

May 17, 2017

British Columbia conservation group eyes property for bighorn sheep

The Nature Trust of British Columbia is seeking to purchase and protect an 87.5-acre area of bighorn sheep habitat on the east side of Skaha Lake in the province’s southern...

March 25, 2016

BLM releases policy to prevent disease in bighorn sheep

Separation is the best management to conserve bighorn sheep in areas of domestic sheep grazing, according to a new interspecies management policy by the Bureau of Land Management. The agency...

August 12, 2015

Inbreeding Not to Blame for Bighorn Sheep Decline

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,...