With more than 200 days of no measurable rain in Las Vegas and counting, Southern Nevada’s beloved bighorn sheep are reaching ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned ...

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 are herbivores ... Options include moving the sheep to other mountain ranges or even other states. The department is also considering emergency hunts to cull the herds. “ ...

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

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 ...

Desert Bighorn Sheep at Lake Mead National Recreation Area ... Herds in the Arrow, McCullough, and Southern Spotted Mountain Ranges are also among the “worst off” according to NDOW.

"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 ...