Bighorn pneumonia is a very popular disease with anyone that wants to eliminate domestic sheep from the western United States.  Any time there is a bighorn pneumonia die off, ...

Pneumonia is a threat to bighorn sheep in the Black Hills area now, the Department of Game Fish and Parks reported during the March 7 GFP Commission meeting. Skip to content.

The pneumonia outbreak that killed more than 500 bighorn sheep across six western Montana populations since late 2009 has reached an important juncture. FWP says effort to cull bighorns with ...

When those fat stores drop, researchers think the sheep may be more susceptible to pneumonia. So they authorized 16 tags for hunters to take ewes this past fall in the Gros Ventre.

But then in the early ‘90s, pneumonia hit the iconic herd, likely from a friendly hello with an infected domestic sheep, and the disease rippled through, killing hundreds of lambs, ewes and rams.

HAMILTON - State wildlife officials killed eight ailing bighorn sheep from the Skalkaho herd earlier this week after finding the animals exhibiting symptoms of pneumonia.

Bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon are turning up sick with pneumonia after more than five years without an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease. In an unfortunate turn, biologists said, the ...

Multiple states are monitoring a bighorn sheep die off caused by pneumonia.The outbreak was detected mid-December in Hells Canyon, Idaho.The Idaho Department ...

But for wild sheep, pneumonia is a death sentence, with mortality rates hovering between 50% and 80% for infected bighorns. For bighorns that do survive an infection, the future is lonely.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will relocate a herd of desert bighorn sheep to El Paso to try to save the species' dwindling population in the state.

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Bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon are turning up sick with pneumonia after more than five years without an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease. In an unfortunate turn, biologists said, the ...