The Badger Pass Ski area won't be opening its doors, but there are still plenty of winter activities to enjoy at Yosemite ...

and rare Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. The Statue of Liberty is certainly not to be missed. A symbol of freedom and democracy, it stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. A gift from France in ...

Nevada is known for its desert bighorn sheep — the official state animal — and the desert tortoise, its official reptile. But there are other official designations that are lesser known, including a ...

Female bighorn sheep are slightly smaller, weighing about 75 to 200 pounds. The smallest bighorn sheep by region is the Sierra Nevada bighorn, which barely weighs past 198 pounds. Male bighorn sheep ...

Males have different patterns and colorations at maturity than females. Once teetering on the brink of extinction, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep is an excellent example of a conservation success ...

California is home to diverse populations of bighorn sheep. The state hosts two subspecies: desert bighorn and Sierra Nevada bighorn. From the arid desert of the Mojave to the snowy heights of the ...

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 ...

Bennett joined his wildlife department colleagues at a Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners meeting last week, emphasizing the need for officials to pay attention to bighorn sheep populations in ...

By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The Times’s weather team. The Sierra Nevada finally got a big snowfall this week in a winter that has so far been marked by warm ...