The world of wild sheep conservation hit a new milestone in January, when a single New Mexico bighorn tag sold for $1.3 million at auction during the 2025 Sheep Show. This is the highest price ever ...

It’s expensive to hunt sometimes. States across the country use hunting and fishing licenses to raise money for their local wildlife programs. This money can be used for a variety of conservation ...

ROCKY BOY’S RESERVATION, Montana — For the herd of bighorn sheep, the rocky cliffs were a safe place, with 360-degree views and plenty of nooks to blend into the gray rocks. The ground was sprinkled ...

HUNTING — The secrecy protecting deep-pocket bidders at trophy big-game hunting tag auctions mysteriously stepped up around 2013 after the record bid was made for a bighorn sheep tag. A February New ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Some big game tags bring big bucks to biologists in Oregon. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is excited for what researchers can do with the $345,000 they’re ...

Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine announced this week that electronic identification for Irish sheep would become mandatory, producing a divided opinion among the Republic’s ...

Bighorn sheep tags were rare in Wyoming back then, and are still rare, said Tom Woolley, Cody wildlife management coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Then why bother hunting bighorn ...

Branden Bartholomew has enjoyed some memorable hunting trips, including moose in Alaska, but the Grand Forks man says it will be difficult to top the bighorn sheep hunt he experienced last September ...

Bryan Moore of Boise won the raffle drawing for the hunt of a lifetime, an Idaho bighorn sheep tag raffled by the Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation. The 22nd annual raffle raised $86,115 that will be spent ...

Electronic tagging of sheep will be mandatory for UK farmers from 31 December 2009 as part of a European Union ruling to help combat disease outbreaks such as foot and mouth. The EU regulations ...