I n summer 2021, Badlands National Park was home to a healthy and growing population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, with approximately 300 total among the three herds. Then in August, Paul ...

The bighorn sheep population in the western North Dakota grasslands is down 4% from the previous year's record count, but still 6% above the five-year average.

About 480 bighorns make up the populations managed by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, National Park Service and ...

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

In the past, bighorn sheep surveys in the region have found 100 to 300 animals in the hunting district. Last year FWP counted ...

Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes ... be sure to bring binoculars. Some wildlife, such as bighorn sheep, can be difficult to spot without them. Gas up before you enter the ...

When the number of bighorn sheep counted in an annual survey plummets by 95% from one year to the next, it gets people’s ...

The northern Badlands population declined by 4% from ... Department biologists count and classify all bighorn sheep in late summer, and then recount lambs the following March, as they approach ...