For over a century, domestic sheep have grazed a 101,676-acre allotment of public land in the San Juan Mountains surrounding Silverton to the north, east and south. Ernie Etchart, a Montrose-based ...

Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, afflicted with pneumonia as the cold skies of winter set in. Here in northeastern ...

BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Forest Service is illegally jeopardizing a small herd of bighorn sheep with deadly diseases by allowing thousands of domestic sheep to graze in eastern Idaho as part of ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana State University Extension will hold several free, public meetings in May to discuss the Wild and Domestic Sheep Comingling Project. According to a press release, "the ...

In response to Joe Lewandowsky's opinion piece, "Wild Bighorns in peril in Colorado, Rocky Mountain West," I would like to share some facts ignored in the emotional rhetoric and scare tactics employed ...

Kim Keating / USGS Bighorn sheep and domestic sheep love to hang out and get nose-to-nose with each other. That’s a problem. Domestic sheep can carry a pathogen that’s highly contagious, and often ...

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The U.S. cattle and sheep industries have experienced significant decline due to zero-tariff policies allowing cheaper imports to displace domestic production. This decline in domestic production ...