Interested Wyoming residents typically wait decades, if not even a lifetime, before drawing a ram license in their home state. Sheep herds are relatively small, scattered and foun ...

Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states — an estimated 2,500 ...

Others in the Hills have been in worse shape, however. A herd in Custer State Park that once numbered about 200 shriveled to two dozen in the years after a devastating pneumonia d ...

But we did not have to wait long, by the time the herd got to the creek, two large rams came running across the pasture to join them. The rams checked out each ewe, but did not find any “ripe ...

Fifteen bighorn lambs have been observed this season in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson — raising hopes that efforts to rebuild a bighorn sheep herd in the range could eventually be ...

In January, Colorado Parks and Wildlife began an operation to capture 20 Rampart Bighorn Sheep to start a new herd. Every morning staff and volunteers have been spreading apple pulp and alfalfa to ...

The herd has started munching the North Hills, and will graze other areas through late July. Because they’re attracted to flowering plants, sheep selectively target invasive weeds while native ...