While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the ...
Between 1992 and 1993, pneumonia reduced the Saguache County population from 400 bighorn sheep to 200. By 2010, the Trickle ...
Funds from the James and Rebecca Malachowski Charitable Fund will give the Bighorn Institute a new opportunity to roll ...
Every morning staff and volunteers have been spreading apple pulp and alfalfa to prep the sheep for capture at an old quarry ...
News5 had the chance to tag along with CPW Terrestrial Biologist Ty Woodward to get a behind-the-scenes look at the Rampart herd west of Colorado Springs.
Desert bighorn sheep in Texas are experiencing a significant population decline due to pneumonia, prompting Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) to collaborate with conservation partners to ...
"They could start to name them, they can embrace them, and when the lambs are born next spring, they can celebrate that," he said. It was a joyful moment as the bighorn sheep were released into ...
Ewes and lambs tend to graze together, separate from rams, until breeding season. At two to four years of age, young rams follow adult rams away from their birth group during the fall breeding period.
That can lead to ewes not lactating enough and giving birth to weaker lambs, which are less likely to survive.” I share Sloan ...
This year, Parks and Wildlife biologists also confirmed the presence of a respiratory disease causing death among the lambs in the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herd in Snowmass. This is an ...