Climate change threatens Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep as avalanches increase at high altitudes, despite less snow overall.

Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the ...

The Sierra Nevada experienced record snowfall in 2023, which killed at least 73 endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. The ...

As far as the bighorn sheep are concerned, conservationists are forced to take a bit of a wait-and-see approach as far as how ...

WASHINGTON-Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could ...

My friend Steve and I decided to run out to Lone Pine and see if the pocket of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep were still there ...

We joined the Sierra Club in suing the city of Palm Desert and California Fish and Game Department over a housing project that would affect the Bighorn Institute, a federally recognized recovery ...

I think it’s collectively our responsibility to make sure the bighorns that we have now ... are here to stay,” a Texas Parks ...

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 ...

Even as snow becomes less consistent in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, climate change could be making deadly avalanches more common, threatening the recovery of bighorn sheep there.

mountain lions known to target bighorn sheep were regularly euthanized. That approach became politically unpopular — mountain lions are beloved in California — and the program has since ...