Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase at high elevations. That's bad news for bighorn sheep ...

Despite seeing the number of bighorn sheep substantially decline in recent years, conservationists have reported that their population in the Sierra Nevada mountain range is potentially on the rebound ...

Nevada designated the desert bighorn sheep as its state animal in 1973, citing its toughness and ability to survive extreme desert conditions. After dropping to about 2,000 animals in the 1960s, ...

In the rugged deserts of the Las Vegas Valley, a crisis unfolded in early 2025 that threatened the survival of the desert bighorn sheep. A brutal drought, stretching over 200 days without measurable ...

VALLEY OF FIRE STATE PARK, Nevada (KTNV) — Nevada is taking action to preserve its state animal, the Desert Bighorn Sheep, by relocating part of a herd based in Southern Nevada. The reason for the ...

Drought is impacting the bighorn sheep living at the Muddy Mountains in Valley of Fire State Park. Drought is impacting the bighorn sheep living at the Muddy Mountains in Valley of Fire State Park. We ...

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.

In a move that reverses nearly a decade of practice, California wildlife officials have quietly begun to allow killing mountain lions in order to protect another iconic native — bighorn sheep. Though ...

VALLEY OF FIRE — Blindfolded, sedated and dangling 100 feet above the ground in a net off a helicopter, dozens of bighorn sheep are less than a day away from a new beginning — if they make it at all. ...

VALLEY OF FIRE STATE PARK (KTNV) — Nevada is taking action to preserve its state animal, the Desert Bighorn Sheep, by relocating part of a herd based in Southern Nevada. Geneva Zoltek spoke to state ...