A couple dozen bighorn sheep in the Muddy Mountains are moving across state lines to help regrow the population in Utah.

VALLEY OF FIRE — Blindfolded, sedated and dangling 100 feet above the ground in a net off a helicopter, dozens of bighorn sheep are less than a day away from a new beginning — if they make it at all.

Land managers have long worried about the convergence of mountain goats, bighorn sheep and masses of people on Mount Blue Sky ...

Mountain goats aren’t native to the park or Wyoming, they wandered over from Idaho, where they’d been introduced in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The fragile and shrinking bighorn sheep ...

A group of hikers in the San Gabriel Mountains recently encountered a rare sighting: a large family of bighorn sheep. As seen in images posted by the Instagram account @lahikes on May 29, hikers ...

Committee members attend regular meetings with wildlife officials and help decide on such matters as whether mountain lions should be killed for preying on bighorn sheep. Game and Fish Department ...

Sterling counted a minimum of 155 bighorn sheep in an aerial survey last week ... Falls Wildlife Management Area near Libby, and Berray Mountain in the Bull River country northwest of Noxon.

Nearby, another four bighorn sheep hardly look up from their morning ... fast-acting tranquilizer darts and heads back down the mountain to begin the hunt for more sheep. Earlier this week ...

The Rocky Mountain bighorn was 10 and a half years ... The accomplishment makes him the 28th Nebraska hunter since 1998 to shoot a bighorn sheep. Most years, only one or two permits are issued ...

Every month, nearly 2,000 Sonoran Desert animals cross a wildlife bridge over busy Oracle Road, or move through an oversized ...