always on the move to escape mountain lions and find food on steep, rocky slopes. Although they once populated the High Sierra by the thousands, European settlement of the West brought domestic sheep ...

In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign ...

says Aly Courtemanch, a habitat biologist for Wyoming’s Game and Fish ... increasing human disturbances and competition with a growing number of mountain goats. Bighorn sheep have excellent eyesight ...

THREATS: Loss of habitat due to development and agriculture, collisions with cars, predation by mountain lions, and diseases contracted from domestic sheep caused Peninsular bighorn sheep to decline.

If you've ever wanted to catch a glimpse of bighorn sheep in the wild, you may want to check out these two viewing events ...

Friends of the Desert Mountains and local partners, including the Bighorn Institute, are continuing efforts to protect ...