$1.3 Million Bighorn Sheep Tag Sets Record for Most Expensive Auction Tag Ever
A single New Mexico bighorn tag sold for more than $1 million at auction during the 2025 Sheep Show. It's the highest price ...
Drought endangers Desert Bighorn Sheep, Nevada’s state animal
Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned ...
I Thought My Once-in-a-Lifetime Hunt Was a Bust. Then I Killed the Biggest Bighorn Ever Taken in Oregon
A construction worker in Oregon draws a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn sheep tag. After a summer of scouting, his hunt doesn't ...
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Was 2024 a better year for Colorado’s bighorn sheep?
While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...
Colorado Public Radio24d
Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep. Advocates say feds left them ‘high and dry’ on the issue
The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species.
Summit County23d
Was 2024 a better year for Colorado’s bighorn sheep?
While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...
Two-day Salute to Conservation event supports wild sheep in B.C.
Join the Wild Sheep Society of British Columbia at Canada’s largest one-stop shop for mountain hunting later this month in Penticton.
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Mountain biker pulls stranded bighorn sheep from icy Utah river
GREEN RIVER, Utah (KUTV) — A man detailed his encounter with a bighorn sheep stranded in an icy river in remote Utah. Michael Nordenstrom was out for a solo ride on his mountain bike west of ...
The Durango Herald25d
Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep
Not all of Colorado’s rocky mountain bighorn sheep have fared this well. Experts estimate that at the start of the 19th century, between 1.5 million and 2 million bighorn sheep roamed the ...
Reno Gazette-Journal12d
Drought endangers desert bighorn sheep, Nevada’s state animal
The state spends as much as $900,000 a year killing mountain lions and other predators, so that trophy animals such as deer and bighorn sheep are available for the hunt. “Sportsmen excel at ...