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, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck Reservoir.

R-CALF USA is aggressively pursuing tariffs for cattle, sheep, beef and lamb. And it seems we’re the only national livestock ...

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact extends far beyond providing meat. Their wool transformed clothing ...

Two centuries ago, an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million bighorn sheep lived in North America; today, a mere 28,000 remain. Diseases caught from domestic sheep, competition from livestock for ...

Although they once populated the High Sierra by the thousands, European settlement of the West brought domestic sheep and other threats to the bighorns' habitat, and the species is thought to have ...

The Sopris Sun published a report on the herd of bighorn sheep at Avalanche Creek. At the time, The Sun reported that the ...

By analyzing the proportion of sheep with each retrovirus marker, Palmarini's team concluded that sheep were initially domesticated (likely bred for their meat) in the Near East, and radiated out to ...

Those settlements were increasingly abuzz with domesticated mammals, whose population density and proximity to people raised the risk of trouble. "In particular, the domestication of sheep ...