A Montana rancher has been sentenced to six months in prison after cloning a "near threatened" sheep from Asia and then selling its offspring to shooting preserves, according to court documents.

BILLINGS – In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck ...

For Routt County Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Caughey, a big game trophy has never been measured in inches or pounds. Instead, ...

This story, “Bachelor Bighorns,” appeared in the July 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. FROM MY PERCH on the rocky ledge I could glass some of the cactus-studded terrain while I caught my breath. I had just ...

Fifty-five bighorn sheep from the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation were transferred to North Dakota and Utah in January in a unique, privately funded project. Touting the work as a new example of ...

Jim Manley poses on a mountaintop with his trophy Dall sheep. Manley twice completed the North American Grand Slam of sheep hunting, and wrote an award-winning memoir about his hunts. If you’ve been ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Packing out wild game after a successful hunt is a grueling test for leg and back muscles, not to ...

Few hunting experiences are as rugged, challenging and elusive as stalking a bighorn sheep. Interested Wyoming residents typically wait decades, if not even a lifetime, before drawing a ram license in ...