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Survival in the desert: How the desert bighorn sheep became Nevada’s state animal

Quick Take Nevada designated the desert bighorn sheep as its state animal in 1973, citing its toughness and ability to ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Are Colorado’s bighorn sheep herds in peril?

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and disturbances, a changing climate and growing recreation and human pressure.
Colorado Public Radio

Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep. Advocates say feds left them ‘high and dry’ on the issue

The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species. Bulldozers, ...