Bighorn males, called rams ... rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet only to mate. Rams live in bachelor groups and females live in herds ...

What caused a once thriving band of bighorn sheep in the Middle Missouri Breaks to vanish? Numerous studies have attempted to ...

Missteps occurred too: A herd transplanted near Van Horn was nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded aoudad ...

In the face of a plummeting population of bighorn sheep north of Fort Peck Reservoir, the Montana Fish and Wildlife ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 2024 bighorn sheep survey, completed by recounting lambs in March, revealed a minimum of 350 bighorn sheep in the grasslands of western North Dakota, down 4 ...

My respect for bighorn sheep is enormous. As far as I’m concerned, no animal has better eyesight or a greater ability to elude the hunter. The odds on merely seeing a legal ram, much less killing one, ...

It's not too late to apply to hunt elk, moose and bighorn sheep in North Dakota. The applications are available online at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's website. The deadline to apply ...

The bighorn sheep population in the western North Dakota grasslands is down 4% from the previous year's record count, but still 6% above the five-year average.