Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Talk about a short hunting season: Two days after the backcountry bighorn sheep season opened ...

Note: As we close out 2025, it’s 50 years since North Dakota’s first modern bighorn sheep hunt. Tim Felchle, born and raised ...

Bighorn sheep tags are coveted and difficult to draw. In 2013, 1,675 residents applied for six either-sex sheep tags in HD 622. The odds of drawing the tag were less than 1 percent. Linda Heiken, 52, ...

The company proposing a 900-megawatt power generation project at Seminoe Reservoir in Carbon County claims that restrictions aimed at protecting ...

BISMARCK – Applications for North Dakota’s elk, moose and bighorn sheep seasons are now available on the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s website at gf.nd.gov, and more elk and moose licenses ...

Designated in 1961, the Bighorn Sheep represents Colorado’s rugged identity and its commitment to wildlife conservation. The ...

This is the third and final part of a three-part story.

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, ...

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 ...

Brett French Lee Newspapers Apr 10, 2025 Apr 10, 2025 In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep were captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east ...