While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

On Thursday, Parks and Wildlife recommended that the number of hunting licenses for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep drop from 327 to 307 in 2025. The reduction is the greatest in the Georgetown unit ...

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

Scientists estimate that at the start of the 19th century, up to two million bighorn sheep may have roamed the mountains of North America. Photo: Andrea Kramar, Rocky Mountain PBS COLORADO SPRINGS, ...

The quarry – which once provided Colorado Springs with the limestone aggregates needed to make concrete – has become a surprise haven for bighorn sheep, providing the steep slopes, visibility and food ...

Those sheep have now rebuilt herds statewide, the agency said. The Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep is the state animal of Colorado.

GREEN RIVER, Utah (KUTV) — A man detailed his encounter with a bighorn sheep stranded in an icy river in remote Utah. Michael Nordenstrom was out for a solo ride on his mountain bike west of ...

every year and so you have a stagnant to dwindling population of bighorn sheep. A good example of a devastating die-off in Colorado was with the Trickle Mountain Herd. Trickle Mountain Herd is ...