While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species.

that the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep was named the state animal in 1961. Millions of bighorn sheep used to scale the cliffs in North America at the beginning of the 19th century but that number ...

every year and so you have a stagnant to dwindling population of bighorn sheep. A good example of a devastating die-off in Colorado was with the Trickle Mountain Herd. Trickle Mountain Herd is ...

Desert Bighorn Sheep at Lake Mead National Recreation Area ... Herds in the Arrow, McCullough, and Southern Spotted Mountain Ranges are also among the “worst off” according to NDOW.

The recent article, “Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep,” (Herald ... Meyers is executive director of the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society. He lives in Grand Junction.

Desert Bighorn Sheep at Lake Mead National Recreation Area ... Herds in the Arrow, McCullough, and Southern Spotted Mountain Ranges are also among the “worst off” according to NDOW. “That herd has ...

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. “Sportsmen excel at ...