Rocky Mountain big horn sheep. George Wuerthner. Bighorn sheep acquired their name for the large circular horns of the mature rams. They are strongly associated with mountain terrain, particularly ...

Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, afflicted with pneumonia as the cold skies of winter set in. Here in northeastern ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana State University Extension will hold several free, public meetings in May to discuss the Wild and Domestic Sheep Comingling Project. According to a press release, "the ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a new rule last week intended to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn sheep. The ...

Mountain Studies Institute’s project supports work of public land and wildlife agencies In Southwest Colorado, a growing army of everyday scientists scours the mountains for Rocky Mountain bighorn ...

OKANOGAN, Wash. – Bighorn sheep in central Washington could be in danger if domestic sheep continue to graze nearby. That’s the concern from two groups suing the U.S. Forest Service. Domestic sheep or ...

Sheep ranchers, like their counterparts in the cattle industry, rarely have sufficient privately owned land to provide year-round grazing and have relied on leasing grazing land from state and federal ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Stone Age humans were raising and slaughtering domesticated sheep in Central Asia three thousand years before previously thought, new research shows. The findings suggest the Fergana Valley played an ...

The U.S. cattle and sheep industries have experienced significant decline due to zero-tariff policies allowing cheaper imports to displace domestic production. This decline in domestic production ...