In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign ...

Keating collected a snip of hair ... After a few wobbly steps, she ambled off to join the herd. Bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis, are a majestic symbol of the mountainous West.

The Eagle County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously agreed to use $5 million in open space funds to help preserve a 148-acre East Vail parcel that’s home to a native herd of bighorn sheep.

The bighorn sheep population in the western North Dakota grasslands is down 4% from the previous year's record count, but still 6% above the five-year average.

Drones are also used to monitor land, check on water and feed supplies, and to check on livestock without disturbing them. Farmers in New Zealand have found a new way to herd their sheep.