While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

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.

In one dramatic moment near Colorado Springs, a square 70-foot-wide net dropped, and about 20 bighorn sheep were captured, much to their surprise. Colorado Parks and Wildlife workers hustled in and ...

Colorado (KCNC) — In January, Colorado Parks and Wildlife began an operation to capture 20 Rampart Bighorn Sheep to start a new herd. Every morning staff and volunteers have been spreading apple pulp ...