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 ...

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 ...

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A new breakthrough suggests that sheep and other livestock played a prominent role in the spread of an ancient plague across Eurasia thousands of years before the famed Black Death. For the first time ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, revealing that the disease’s early spread depended on animals long before ...

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 ...

A wildlife conservation group recently agreed to pay a Colorado rancher to move his domestic sheep out of the high country in order to free up the territory for a herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks awarded $4 million to a Montana State University research team ...

Quick Take Nevada designated the desert bighorn sheep as its state animal in 1973, citing its toughness and ability to ...

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 ...