Three more bighorn sheep have died in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson this month — two of them falling prey to mountain lions and the other dying of an undetermined cause. Meanwhile, all ...

Overhead, desert bighorn sheep cross U.S. Highway 93. The sheep aren’t headed to Las Vegas, like other travelers on the highway near Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border. The bighorn ...

The Black Hills’ original mountain goat herd dates to the 1920s, when six animals were imported from Alberta, Canada, and placed in a zoo in Custer State Park. They weren’t penned up for long.

When I was accepted for graduate school at Idaho State University in 1974, I knew what my MS research would be on — the black ...

‘It’s going to be Shangri-La’: Muddy Mountain bighorn sheep captured, relocated to Utah. Updated: Jun. 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM PDT | By Molly McBride.