Although he has a trophy room of about 100 mounts that feature everything from mule deer and whitetails to 400-class bull elk, one of the newest additions to Scott Chester’s collection will be an animal he never hunted.
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One of the more challenging aspects for game managers relates to disease and parasites, not only transmission between domestic and wild sheep, but also within the bighorn herds themselves.
Grand Teton National Park killed 36 goats in its one-day aerial shoot.
The debate has lingered for decades, growing increasingly loud.
A study led by Blake Lowrey found notable distinctions in the migrations of different types of bighorn sheep herds. Native herds that have never been removed from historic ranges retain more diverse migratory patterns than restored and augmented herds.
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will not recognize as a state record a bighorn sheep that was killed nearly three years a…
Almost 2 million bighorn sheep once roamed the West’s mountains. They moved in waves so thick early explorers could hardly count their numbers…
Just so you know, Wyoming Game and Fish doesn’t hate mountain goats. But the growth of the non-native critters in the Teton Range is posing a …
JACKSON — Federal mineral leasing has drastically increased under Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, but the former Montana congressman has set as…
They’re rarely seen from highways, chairlifts or hiking trails. They eke out an existence at elevations far above tree line, spending three to…
Although ancient bighorn DNA analysis was a great way to link MSU professor Craig Lee’s research with fellow academics, he was more interested…
Next time you admire a bighorn sheep ram with full curls winding around the sides of his face – thank the big guy’s mom. It’s her nutrition th…
From Dee the mammoth to Bam Bam the friendly-yet-troublesome bighorn sheep, some of Wyoming's wild creatures seem larger than life, even in death.Â
Bighorn sheep living in decades past along Idaho’s Salmon River from Riggins to its East and Middle forks far upstream were more genetically d…
Most hunters agree the hunt isn’t about that trophy picture or the wall mount. It’s about the stalk, the camping trip with friends and the mea…
JACKSON — The population of non-native mountain goats is growing prolifically in the Teton Range in Wyoming, while the number of native bighor…
SYBILLE CANYON — Nestled along a creek bottom in a southeast Wyoming canyon is one of few wildlife research centers in the country.
EAST OF LOVELL — The rhythmic wop, wop, wop of the rotors in the distance signaled the doorless blue helicopter was on its way, four attached …
The Cinnabar herd of bighorn sheep that lives just north of Yellowstone National Park has been slow to recover from an outbreak of pneumonia in 2014.
Multiple young bighorn sheep that wandered in and near Casper recently will be monitored by Wyoming Game and Fish officials, and some may ulti…
An Idaho federal judge found the U.S. Forest Service in contempt of court Tuesday, concluding the Forest Service used a flawed study as the ba…
Doug McWhirter started his career working in some of the most remote and rugged Wyoming mountains. As a technician, he studied the effects of …
For the first time in a handful of years, biologists have good news about many Wyoming antelope populations.
