While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

Brian Ratliff’s elusive quarry is the bighorn sheep version of Typhoid Mary. Possibly more than one. Regardless of the number ...

Then, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is keeping a close eye on our iconic state animal, the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Plus, how did Colorado's high country parks come to be?

DUBOIS — My friend Steve and I decided to run out to Lone Pine and see if the pocket of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep were still there and active on Wednesday morning. On the way out, we ran into ...

In a fantastic twist of fortune, a Wyoming archery hunter was out to fill a bighorn sheep ewe tag when he discovered the ...

Bighorn sheep herds could spread out to another Great Salt Lake island someday under a proposed change to the state's species ...

Not all of Colorado’s rocky mountain bighorn sheep have fared this well. Experts estimate that at the start of the 19th century, between 1.5 million and 2 million bighorn sheep roamed the ...

RIVERTON — Four decades ago, Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states – an estimated 2,500 animals. By the early 1990s, disease ...

According to CPW, they have rebuilt herds across the state for decades using these methods. In 1944, Colorado's wildlife agency became the first in the U.S. to successfully capture Bighorn sheep ...

The state spends as much as $900,000 a year killing mountain lions and other predators, so that trophy animals such as deer and bighorn sheep are available for the hunt.

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...