Peninsular bighorn sheep can get water from cacti, splitting the spiny barrel cactus with their horns and eating its watery insides. But thanks to sprawl and agribusiness, both sheep and succulent are ...

In one dramatic moment, a 70-foot-long net dropped, and about 20 bighorn sheep were captured, much to their surprise.

It was a picture perfect winter day. The sky had a thin veil of clouds that would occasionally spit out large fluffy snowflakes drifting straight down to the ground as if in slow motion. At other ...

It is so dismaying that the Weminuche bighorn population has dropped from 460 to 290 since 2011, especially when the target ...

A New Mexico bighorn tag was auctioned for more than $1 million at the 2025 Sheep Show, setting a new record for big-game ...

Colorado is one of the first states to initiate an actual trap and translocation process to try and conserve these big horn sheep in the state." Woodward went on to explain that in the 1940s an ...

Woodward pointed to the circular, annular nature of growth from the ... out here that have larger horns." WOODWARD'S PRIDE IN COLORADO'S STATE MAMMAL "Having bighorn sheep one, it's iconic because ...

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 ...

Despite the man-made noise, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) biologist Ty Woodward spotted a band of eight bighorn sheep grazing the rusty slopes of the quarry. “Even though you have the ...

“In the sun, the big horn sheep horns shine a bit yellow and I have heard them referred to as ‘bananas,’ so I am looking for bananas on the hillsides,” Thompson said with a smile. The ...