Bighorn sheep

A popular hiking trail to an oasis in Joshua Tree National Park has been temporarily closed so bighorn sheep can get undisturbed access to water.“The park…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Visitors to Zion National Park in southern Utah are being asked to be on alert for something besides dramatic red rock vistas:…

Nellis Air Force Base officials are opening land north of Las Vegas for a rare bighorn sheep hunt.Fifteen hunting tags have been issued at the Nevada Test…

Wildlife officials say a recent count found more wild desert bighorn lambs this year than last year in the River Mountains of southern Nevada.But the herd…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada wildlife officials are waiting anxiously to see if their decision to slaughter a diseased herd of bighorn sheep earlier this year…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recognizing a connection between bighorn sheep die-offs and diseases transmitted by…

Pneumonia has been found in a population of bighorn sheep in northwest Arizona.The Mohave Daily News reports Arizona Fish and Game found the disease in…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife officials say bighorn sheep have been relocated to their ancestral range in the Sierra Nevada, putting the endangered…

Zion National Park is being invaded - by drones.Park officials said Monday that the use of drones is on the rise and they want to remind people - that's…

Nevada wildlife biologists recommend hunting down dozens of ewes in order to stabilize the big horn sheep populations. The Nevada Board of Wildlife…