The native bighorns once roamed the Franklin Mountains years ago. Their return marks the next chapter in the species’s survival.

A herd of Bighorn sheep were airlifted via helicopter from a wildlife area in Texas before being loaded onto a trailer and ...

At long last, the desert bighorn sheep return home to the Franklin Mountains – a site that may be critical to the animal’s ...

Per TPWD, native desert bighorn sheep once roamed the Trans-Pecos mountains in healthy numbers in the late 1800s. However, by ...

Bighorn males, called rams ... rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet only to mate. Rams live in bachelor groups and females live in herds ...

For the first time in nearly a century, bighorn sheep are returning to the Franklin Mountains, marking a significant ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will relocate a herd of desert bighorn sheep to El Paso to try to save the ...

But in a recent study, a team of researchers documented five cases in wild bighorn sheep. “We have seen Toxoplasma as a cause of fetal and neonate loss pretty commonly in domestic sheep, ...

Seeing sheep flying through the sky in Texas may be less rare than one would think! The Texas Parks and Wildlife shared a video on social media of a group of endangered desert bighorn sheep being ...

The desert bighorn sheep were loaded onto a trailer after the helicopter ride, then let loose in Franklin Mountains State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department A herd of 80 desert bighorn ...

Desert bighorn sheep once again roam the heights of the Franklin Mountains overlooking El Paso and the Borderlands. A herd of nearly 80 bighorn sheep were released for the first time as part of ...