In 2019, Joel Berger and Forest Hayes were scoping out grizzlies in the Rocky Mountains when they saw something peculiar. Through their spotting scopes, they saw white dots on the landscape about a ...

A bighorn sheep’s rack of curled horns can weigh 30 pounds. A mountain goat’s slender black horns might weigh a pound apiece. Guess who wins the fight? More than nine times out of 10, though, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) — A recent study ...

Rather than ruminating on what to do with the weeds and brush that crop up along its mountain slopes, Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon called in some landscaping help to clear things up: 16 goats and ...

THE Rocky Mountain goat is rarely seen on its native range except by big-game hunters. This is not because the goat is wary, for it is in fact a foolishly curious and incautious beast, but because it ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Mountain goats and bighorn sheep, denizens of some of the most rugged terrain in the Yellowstone ...

Applications are open to hunt this year in Wyoming. Elk, deer, pronghorn, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat and spring ...

Goats ram! Sheep scram! That's pretty much the four-word summation of a new study looking at what happens when goats and sheep compete for salt licks – naturally occurring deposits of salt – above the ...

The last year was a difficult one for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herd health in Colorado, while desert bighorn sheep found in far-western Colorado are faring better, according to Colorado Parks and ...

Herds of mountain goats occupy mountain ranges all around the Mountain West. Not all are native, though, and some of those transplants are causing problems. That's the case in Wyoming's Teton Range.

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...