Rhett Goolsbey is a young, hard-working ranch kid from Powell, Wyoming. He plays football, wrestles, and is a 4H member. And he’s now the youngest hunter in Wyoming history to kill a bighorn sheep.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Talk about a short hunting season: Two days after the backcountry bighorn sheep season opened ...

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, ...

Wildlife populations that become small and isolated, often due to habitat loss, inevitably experience inbreeding which can lead to the loss of fitness and eventual extinction. One solution is to ...

The Washington Wild Sheep Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of people responsible for killing a yearling bighorn sheep ram Saturday near Asotin. Officials ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are searching for the person who shot a bighorn ram off Colorado State Highway 141. Ann Schonlau National Parks Service UPDATE: The Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society ...

THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. — A bighorn sheep ram was shot and left to waste off Thompson River Road near Highway 200 east of Thompson Falls. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks are seeing information on this ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Two bighorn rams from hunting district 622 have tested positive for bacteria that cause pneumonia. One sheep was harvested by the hunter in the fall. Another died during spring ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are searching for a suspect who illegally killed a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep near Saguache. On Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 11, district wildlife ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking for help to identify a suspect who illegally killed a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Saguache County. According to CPW, the sheep was shot once in the abdomen ...

ASOTIN COUNTY, Wash. — Washington and Idaho wildlife officials are seeking information related to two illegal killings of bighorn sheep. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) and the Washington ...