The population is now estimated at 360 sheep, a 40% decline from a year ago, according to Tom Stephenson, who heads the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep ...

Half of the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep appear to have died during this year's record-breaking winter, according to researchers interviewed by LAist. There are now an estimated 360 ...

While bighorn sheep exist in other western mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada subgroup is genetically distinct—the remaining 350 sheep are all that remain of the species.

Mountain lions have also been shown to significantly depress bighorn sheep populations beyond the Sierra Nevada, from New Mexico and Texas to southern Alberta province in Canada.

It’s day two of operation bighorn, a $1.2 million effort in which state wildlife officials are capturing roughly 150 for transport to a sanctuary in Utah and two mountain ranges in Northern Nevada.

Mid-June is when the Nevada Department of Wildlife says it will start removing more than 100 desert bighorn sheep from the Muddy Mountains. (Joe Bennett) Because if you remove sheep, then you got ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

More than 400,000 acres of wildlands in the Eastern Sierra Nevada should be made protected habitat for an endangered mountain sheep rebounding from the threat of extinction, the federal government ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with ...

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