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Joshua Tree closes trail to help bighorns reach spring

June 13, 2022

Joshua Tree National Park is temporarily closing a popular hiking trail to make it easier for bighorn sheep to get to water. The trail leads to Fortynine Palms Oasis, a spring surrounded by palm trees …

Conservation News

JWM: Fire suppression may help cougars prey on bighorns

April 14, 2022

Decades of fire suppression may be the reason that mountain lion predation is taking a bite out of bighorn sheep numbers in parts of Arizona. Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) evolved alongside mountain lions (Puma concolor) …

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Utah creates first desert bighorn nursery

December 21, 2021

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is partnering with the organization Young Living to create the state’s first “nursery” for desert bighorn sheep an effort to help grow the population. The nursery will be located …

FYI News

Effort tracks bighorn, disease on Navajo Nation lands

December 30, 2020

Navajo tribal authorities and veterinarians and scientists from the Denver Zoo, Colorado State University and the Wildlife Conservation Society teamed up to capture and release 90 bighorn sheep on Navajo Nation lands. They hope to …

Conservation News

What’s killing desert bighorn lambs?

November 8, 2018

When New Mexico removed desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) from the state’s list of threatened and endangered species, biologists had a pretty good sense of what caused adult sheep to die, but data were …

Dana Kobilinsky

Winning Reno logo joins fauna of water and land

August 15, 2018

As the American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society prepare to come together in Reno, Nevada for a joint annual conference, Lee Neighbors’ winning conference logo reflects this marriage of organizations. Neighbors’ winning logo depicts …

FYI News

Zion bighorns diagnosed with pneumonia

August 9, 2018

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 the first time has been …

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