If you are looking to avoid crowds at campgrounds, now is a great time to visit Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. This winter, the Grapevine Creek Campground, on the north end of the canyon ...

The canyon, with about 1,200 bighorns, is far from overpopulated and wild sheep have plenty of room to expand. But things are different now. Most of the herds are growing.

From there, I decided against stopping for lunch and headed straight to the Borrego Palm Canyon Trail to take my chances at seeing some bighorn sheep. Some notes about hiking in Anza-Borrego ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife moved 21 bighorn sheep from the Rampart herd in Colorado Springs to a new home in Beaver Creek Canyon on Tuesday.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been capturing Bighorn Sheep this way and rebuilding herds across the state since 1944. They said the department was the first wildlife agency in the U.S. to ...

Bighorn Sheep were nearly wiped out in the early part of the last century in Colorado due to unregulated market hunting, in which the animals are killed and sold for food. Other factors included ...

Bighorn sheep were on the brink of extinction due to disease and market hunting in the 1880s. A ban on hunting in 1885 protected the remaining sheep, but the species needed a little extra push to ...

21 bighorn sheep from the Rampart herd in Colorado Springs are exploring new home in Beaver Creek Canyon near Victor, Colorado. Helicopter airlift photos, video.

A bighorn ewe browses with lambs. Jacob W. Frank / NPS “We are really excited about this area and the opportunity it will provide to grow our desert bighorn populations in Utah,” Peck said. “There ...