The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a new rule last week intended to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn sheep. The ...

How many bighorn sheep can the greater Hells Canyon region support? Not too many years ago, that question might have seemed absurd to wildlife managers. Bighorn numbers were stagnant at best. A ...

People around the world keep more than two billion sheep and goats for their meat, milk, and wool, or as pets. But despite the ubiquity of these domestic animals, few people may know that they have ...

NACHES, Wash. (AP) — State and federal biologists plan to euthanize wild bighorn sheep in central Washington to curb the spread of a deadly pneumonia outbreak. Biologists will spend the next several ...

Loy Beardsmore, president of the Eucalyptus Hill Association, and John Ahlman, vice president of the Firesafe Council, look over the project. (Ray Ford photo) The question — in an urban interface like ...

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and disturbances, a changing climate and growing recreation and human pressure.

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 ...

Due to the remarkable success of the Research Topic 'Genomic Insights into Sheep and Goat Breeding Efficiency' and the rapidly evolving subject area, we are ...

Goats ram! Sheep scram! That's pretty much the four-word summation of a new study looking at what happens when goats and sheep compete for salt licks – naturally occurring deposits of salt – above the ...