“I think it’s collectively our responsibility to make sure the bighorns that we have now ... are here to stay,” Froylan Hernandez said Seeing sheep flying through the sky in Texas may be less rare ...

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The desert bighorn sheep is the comeback kid among Texas big game animals. In its fight to maintain a precarious foothold in its native mountain ranges in arid West Texas, the magnificent beast has ...

A female desert bighorn sheep stands guard over her lamb. A recent study of the sheep in the Black Ridge herd indicates the sheep are lambing earlier, in January and February, than desert bighorn ...

The last year was a difficult one for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herd health in Colorado, while desert bighorn sheep found in far-western Colorado are faring better, according to Colorado Parks and ...

Desert bighorn sheep once again roam the heights of the Franklin Mountains overlooking El Paso and the Borderlands. A herd of nearly 80 bighorn sheep were released for the first time as part of ...

Nov. 26—AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) invites the greater El Paso community to come celebrate the reintroduction of desert bighorn sheep into their once-native range at ...

Overhead, desert bighorn sheep cross U.S. Highway 93. The sheep aren’t headed to Las Vegas, like other travelers on the highway near Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border. The bighorn are using ...

Desert bighorn sheep are once again roaming the Franklin Mountains of far West Texas after a successful reintroduction by Texas Parks and Wildlife. The state agency recently moved 77 sheep from the ...

Our local species of Peninsular desert bighorn sheep have been in the news lately — and for an unusual reason. It seems they've taken to occasionally strolling around downtown Palm Springs, taking in ...

Wildlife officials in Arizona are investigating the illegal killing of a desert bighorn sheep that was left for dead last month and offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest of those ...