MISSOULA, Mont. — A group of University of Montana researchers are in year two of a five-year study funded by Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks to track bighorn sheep and mountain goats. There is a ...

Wildlife biology doctorate student Colton Padilla (left) assists other UM researchers and Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks staff during a winter bighorn sheep capture in 2023. (Photo courtesy of Colton ...

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 ...

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and ...

FLORENCE — Mark Biel calls out to his border collie Gracie as she herds a small flock of five sheep into a tight clump of irritated wool. The sheep relax for a moment and open their mouths to pant.

The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species. Bulldozers, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Bighorn sheep are thriving five years after returning to Antelope Island, but herds could spread out to another Great Salt Lake island someday under a proposed change to the state's ...

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down car traffic to Mount Blue Sky in 2020, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance got a rare glimpse at how wildlife interacted with their ...