Beginning this week the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will start capturing Dall sheep in Chugach State Park for a two-year study on population demographics. The research will examine body ...

Dall's Sheep Research in the Chugach Range: Lamb Capture from ADF&G on Vimeo. Shooting net guns from helicopters and chasing newborn lambs down cliffs, Dr. Tom Lohuis and his team have been capturing ...

Watching a small band of Dall sheep ewes with a single lamb, Tommy Levanger recalled seeing a small black speck in his peripheral vision. The speck was a golden eagle in a 50-to-60-degree dive towards ...

As a wildlife field technician, Luke Metherell combines job, hobby and homework on weeklong backpacking trips in the mountains. A biology student at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Metherell ...

Seward District Ranger Ruth D’Amico, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, is closing the Unit 7 Federal subsistence sheep drawing hunt to the harvest of Dall sheep. The closure ...

With the possible exception of wolves, Alaska’s Dall sheep evoke more passion than any game critter I know. This passion is less sensational than wolf partisans project because it is typically ...

ST. PAUL — Como Zoo welcomed two fluffy baby Dall sheep in April, lambs that join a growing, weather-themed family. Iao, whose name means “cloud supreme” in Hawaiian, was born to Drizzle on April 1, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - There's a new, highly adorable resident of the Como Zoo. On Saturday, June 4, the zoo welcomed a new baby girl Dall sheep to its family. The snowy white little one has been named ...

I mumbled a prayer and jumped. It was the only way out. I couldn't turn back. I was thinking about a hunt for Dall sheep when I left my home state of Colorado and drove up the rough and dusty Alcan ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Packing out wild game after a successful hunt is a grueling test for leg and back muscles, not to ...

The stench of wildfire smoke burned our nostrils as we unbuckled our sweaty pack belts. We’d hiked only a handful of miles but before either of us spoke, my buddy Frank Schultz and I both knew we ...