Invasive species causing deadly threat to native bighorn sheep, Texas study finds

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently moved more than 70 bighorn to El Paso's Franklin Mountains State Park in ...
Science Daily

Bighorn sheep face death by avalanche in Sierra Nevada range

Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase at high elevations. That's bad news for bighorn sheep ...
Yahoo

Endangered Desert Bighorn Sheep Airlifted Across Texas Skies in Dramatic Conservation Effort

Seeing sheep flying through the sky in Texas may be less rare than one would think! The Texas Parks and Wildlife shared a video on social media of a group of endangered desert bighorn sheep being ...
Los Angeles Times

What the great Texas bighorn sheep experiment tells us about rewilding the West

FRANKLIN MOUNTAINS, Texas — Two big rams bolted from the steel trailer, took a few hesitant steps and glanced around nervously at their new home: dramatic mountains in west Texas more than 200 miles ...
Colorado Public Radio

Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep. Advocates say feds left them ‘high and dry’ on the issue

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, ...

This Legendary Sheep Hunter Once Chased Mouflon and Aoudad on a High-Fenced Texas Ranch. Here Are His Takeaways

But the big canyon could be mouflon range. The little Mediterranean sheep (the "living ancestors" of domestic sheep) take in ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nevada’s state animal may face die-offs, relocation due to drought

A symbol of the persistent spirit of life in the American West, bighorn sheep have long made their home in the country’s driest desert. Far before white settlers reached Las Vegas, these hearty ...
Austin American-Statesman

Exotica gone wild: Strange and amazing animals you might encounter on a Texas road trip

Perhaps you've caught a glimpse of one during a Texas road trip. An aoudad, otherwise known as a Barbary sheep, looks a bit like a domesticated sheep, or perhaps more like a North American bighorn ...