Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male desert bighorn Sheep is released at the Franklin Mountains State Park as part of a reintroduction of bighorns into the ...

A desert big horned ram begins a jump down a steep incline on red slickrock.© MelaniWright/Shutterstock.com It’s no surprise that a state as unique and fascinating ...

Jose Etchart spotted them from a helicopter on a mild October morning – a group of 30 or so desert bighorn sheep scaling the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, just north of Smugglers Pass. The sheep’s ...

BORREGO SPRINGSBORREGO SPRINGS — It was around 2007, a couple years before Mark Jorgensen retired as superintendent of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, when photography buff Jeff Young walked into ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (Oct. 29, 2018) - White Sands Missile Range with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish conducted a capture operate of desert bighorn sheep and relocated them to the ...

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, ...