You can also expect to do a lot of climbing and hiking to find the perfect sheep, especially if you want to compete with the largest bighorn sheep ever caught in Oregon. To learn more about the ...

A New Mexico bighorn tag was auctioned for more than $1 million at the 2025 Sheep Show, setting a new record for big-game ...

The species, also known as Barbary sheep, are native to parts of North and West Africa, but are now found throughout Western and Central Texas. The invasive aoudads far outnumber the desert ...

We joined the Sierra Club in suing the city of Palm Desert and California Fish and Game Department over a housing project that would affect the Bighorn Institute, a federally recognized recovery ...

We found several benches that offered plenty of vegetation and water — seemingly ideal for sheep — but we failed to spot a single bighorn. During the long drive back home that night I decided that I ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

Domestic sheep and goats pose one of the biggest threats to wild bighorn sheep health ... Holland’s state of the herds address also addressed populations of desert bighorn sheep — slightly smaller ...

A desert bighorn sheep ewe and lamb, part of the northern Santa Rosa Mountains herd near Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage. “A huge part of our research is being able to get out into the field ...

Created in 1982 by a group of biologists and veterinarians, the primary goal was to investigate the causes of bighorn sheep declines, honing in on Peninsular desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis).