Scientists say the population of endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep appears to have stabilized after suffering devastating losses during the record-breaking winter of 2022-2023. Tom Stephenson ...

Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep learn to leap from crag to crag in early lambhood, developing quickly into keen-eyed, strong-limbed and extremely agile creatures, always on the move to escape mountain ...

Jared Bybee, the BLM’s Elko district manager, said moving the bighorn sheep by June is necessary “to prevent a large-scale die-off,” so the BLM plans to determine whether approval can ...

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 ...

The area harbors habitat for bi-state greater sage-grouse, rare Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and Lahontan cutthroat trout. The U.S. Forest Service had been reviewing whether to initiate cattle grazing ...

the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are different from the more well-known and more common Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Sierra ...

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 ...

Nevada is known for its desert bighorn sheep — the official state animal ... mineral as well as the granitic composition of the Sierra Nevada. Red symbolizes the red rock formations in ...

Even as snow becomes less consistent in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, climate change could be making deadly avalanches more common, threatening the recovery of bighorn sheep there.

The Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae) was granted protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2000, when population estimates were as low as 100 individuals. Disclaimer ...