In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign ...

Disease, drought and predators like mountain lions have all been blamed for the herd’s demise. Unfortunately, large die-offs ...

Researchers in the Bitterroot Valley have seen significant mortality in bighorn sheep over the winter, with all collared rams ...

A primary purpose of our summer camping trips is to find choice areas for my big-game hunts in the fall. It was during the summer of 1968 that I made up my mind to devote a week of my vacation time to ...

In the face of a plummeting population of bighorn sheep north of Fort Peck Reservoir, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission voted in an emergency Monday online meeting to halt all hunter ...

What caused a once-thriving band of bighorn sheep in the Middle Missouri Breaks to vanish? Numerous studies have attempted to find clues to similar declines.

In light of the severe population decline, the Fish and Wildlife Commission decided in an emergency March meeting to close HD 622 to all bighorn sheep hunting. “This is a puzzle,” said Scott ...

Bighorn-sheep hunting in Montana is limited to 10 specified districts. Only rams with a three-quarter curl or better are legal in most of the districts. Hunting permits for sheep in all but two of ...

HELENA, Mont.– The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold an emergency public meeting on Monday, March 31, to discuss potentially closing bighorn sheep hunting in hunting district 622 ...