Image via Shutterstock It turns out the biggest threat to America's big game herds may not be environmental damage or even ...

Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states — an estimated 2,500 ...

and News5 Photojournalist Ryan Mutch made the trek up America's Mountain to better understand and perform an annual assessment of the current Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep population across Colorado.

Wildlife officials have hauled 122,000 gallons of water to support the animals since December, but say relocation is ...

There are only approximately 80,000 North American bighorn sheep on the continent currently — much less than the between ...

"So really important practice that we do in Colorado, very important for the conservation of big horn sheep on a statewide basis, but also across North America." Woodward is one of the people at ...

Missteps occurred too: A herd transplanted near Van Horn was nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded aoudad ...

Bighorn sheep live in the western mountainous regions of North America between southern Canada and Mexico. They often live in steep areas of mountains, with ledges sometimes only two inches wide, ...

when a single New Mexico bighorn tag sold for $1.3 million at auction during the 2025 Sheep Show. This is the highest price ever paid for a big-game auction tag in North America, replacing the ...