“The Original Texas G.O.A.T,” the sign read, alongside the familiar logo found on every ... “That’s a sheep.” Specifically, a bighorn sheep. I knew this because for months, I’d been ...

But on a warm afternoon in December, 77 of these animals were captured near the town of Alpine and hauled back home to build ...

Airlifting bighorn sheep back into the Sierra Nevada’s national parks. This March, a large helicopter thrummed over the 13,000-foot-high pinnacles of Yosemite National Park’s Cathedral Range with an ...

Coats shed in patches in June and July. HABITAT: Peninsular bighorn sheep prefer steep, open slopes, canyons, and washes in hot and dry desert regions where the land is rough, rocky, and sparsely ...