People don’t have to go out of state to view bighorns.” For thousands of years, desert bighorn sheep roamed the isolated mountain ranges of Far West Texas. At Hueco Tanks in the easternmost ...

constructed two rainwater collection "guzzlers" to offer an additional water source for the sheep in the arid desert mountains. An estimated 120 bighorns are still roaming in Elephant Mountain WMA ...

Desert bighorn sheep in Texas are experiencing a significant population decline due to pneumonia, prompting Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) to collaborate with conservation partners to ...

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the ...

"Today we are taking [the] surplus of animals off of Elephant Mountain and translocating ... focus of this relocation operation, the desert bighorn sheep, was classified as endangered in 2000 ...

9 Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting. The report examined the health of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and its desert bighorn sheep and mountain goat populations and how herd health ...

Watch the moment a herd of endangered desert sheep is airlifted from a Texas mountain to a new home. The desert bighorn sheep were moved from the home where they were raised to their new range on ...

The desert bighorn sheep were loaded onto a trailer after the helicopter ride, then let loose in Franklin Mountains State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department A herd of 80 desert bighorn ...