The herd at Pikeview Quarry descended from 14 bighorn sheep that were originally destined for Pike Peak. In 1946, a truck carrying the sheep broke down. The drivers released the sheep near Green ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists are braving a blizzard to continue work on their bighorn sheep project, the organization posted on X. Commonly referred to as rams ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of ...

Coats shed in patches in June and July. HABITAT: Peninsular bighorn sheep prefer steep, open slopes, canyons, and washes in hot and dry desert regions where the land is rough, rocky, and sparsely ...

DESCRIPTION: Similar in appearance to other bighorn sheep, the Sierra Nevada bighorn is a large mammal with a white rump, ranging in body color from almost white to fairly dark brown. Adult males ...

so much so that we’re already seeing the water developments that we have filled already start to draw down,” he said. “Vegetation is in really bad shape.” Desert bighorn sheep are herbivores.