The desert bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis nelsoni, is one of the most coveted game animals on earth. This isn’t because they inhabit particularly remote crevices of the globe or because they’re all ...

Authorities in Arizona are seeking public assistance in a poaching case that involves the killing of seven elk and two bighorn sheep. The Arizona Game and Fish Department investigation centers on a ...

In 2013, Arizona Game and Fish began its on-going program to reintroduce bighorn sheep to the Santa Catalina Mountains. At the time, 31 of them were relocated to the area from Yuma. More than half of ...

My respect for bighorn sheep is enormous. As far as I’m concerned, no animal has better eyesight or a greater ability to elude the hunter. The odds on merely seeing a legal ram, much less killing one, ...

Wilmer looked at me and said I may very well be the first hunter to shoot a bighorn ram in North Dakota’s first legal bighorn ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month and a ...

Nick Schmitz of Grand Forks holds up the head of the massive bighorn sheep ram he shot Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, in the Little Missouri National Grasslands of western North Dakota. The ram, which had a ...

If you’ve been recreating out at Smith Rock State Park in Central Oregon long enough, you may have seen a middle-aged man going up and over Misery Ridge, carrying 20 pounds in his backpack. That tired ...