And the opportunity is once in a lifetime. Draw a Wyoming bighorn sheep ram tag, and whether or not you fill it, you’ll never get another. But ewes are a different story.

Kiersten’s harvest closes Nebraska’s 2023 season for bighorn sheep, in which just two permits were issued. The other hunter, who won his permit by auction, shot an impressive ram in the ...

Bighorn sheep were introduced into North Dakota’s Badlands in 1956, and after a few ups and downs over the years, the ...

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

Bighorn sheep were transplanted to the Bitterroot from Sun River in Teton County. The East Fork herd was reintroduced in 1972, with 19 sheep released into Tolan Creek and an additional 16 released ...

According to a Facebook post from Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement, a group of poachers illegally killed at least four bighorn sheep, including a sublegal ram, in September in the former ...

The state issues few bighorn sheep tags for rams. In the Missouri Breaks, less than 2 percent of the hunters who apply are awarded a tag. The fact that a warden shot a record-book ram while ...

In the heat of the Arizona summer, it is usually more difficult to see much of its wildlife as most species are staying in ...

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 ...

“The worst day of my career was flying over a guzzler in 2020 and seeing dead bighorn sheep. It was terrible, it was awful to see,” Bennett explained. “It’s our state animal.

Later, John J. Audubon wrote about bighorn sheep and the frustrations of trying to hunt these rams in the 1840s. Theodore Roosevelt also hunted the Badlands for bighorn sheep during his time spent ...