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Wyoming's bold move to save bighorn sheep

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department just dropped a documentary that's getting serious attention from hunters and wildlife ...
This story was originally published in September 2014. “We’ll base at Camp Monaco,” says Lee Livingston. The French Riviera flashes into my mind before Livingston’s High Plains drawl squelches visions ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Talk about a short hunting season: Two days after the backcountry bighorn sheep season opened ...
A bighorn sheep that I had wounded was somewhere ahead of me on this ledge. I had a responsibility to fulfill, and I was determined to carry it out. This ram — the entire hunt, in fact­ — had been a ...
Bighorn sheep tags are coveted and difficult to draw. In 2013, 1,675 residents applied for six either-sex sheep tags in HD 622. The odds of drawing the tag were less than 1 percent. Linda Heiken, 52, ...
After my own sheep hunt, my wife decided she wanted to tag a big desert bighorn, too, and that I would be her guide.
Until about March, folks might see blindfolded bighorn sheep or deer flying around, slung in harnesses under helicopters.
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs were honored for their decades-long bighorn sheep restoration efforts during the Wild ...