Few animals evoke Colorado’s rugged and unforgiving mountains like the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Yet the vertical terrain that keeps sheep safe from predators also limits opportunities for Coloradans to view and appreciate Colorado’s state animal.
A happy exception for wildlife watchers is Georgetown, where the Colorado Division of Wildlife is finalizing preparations for the 4th [...]

Three energy companies are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible for the poaching of a bighorn sheep ram north of De Beque.
On Friday, Oct. 30, investigators with the Colorado Division of Wildlife were notified that a quarter-curl bighorn ram had been poached on private land. [...]

Few animals epitomize Colorado’s rugged and unforgiving mountains like the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Yet the vertical terrain that keeps sheep safe from predators also limits opportunities for Coloradans to view and appreciate this majestic animal.
Click here to view the video on bighorn sheep
That’s why the Colorado Division of Wildlife dispatched their video production [...]

Thanks to the support of Colorado sportsmen, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep have made a comeback in Gore Canyon, west of Kremmling. In mid-January wildlife managers with the Colorado Division of Wildlife released 14 bighorns into the rugged canyon country that overlooks the headwaters of the Colorado River.

Bighorn sheep were seen in Gore Canyon as [...]

Colorado Division of Wildlife officials are seeking information regarding the illegal killing of a Rocky Mountain bighorn ram on Oct. 14 in Mineral County in southern Colorado.

A $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of people involved in the incident.
The DOW received an anonymous tip from someone who saw the [...]

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) and eight non-profit wildlife conservation organizations have selected more than $480,000 in wildlife projects that will be funded this year with proceeds from the sale of special auction and raffle hunting licenses in Colorado.

Each year several special hunting licenses are auctioned or raffled by non-profit wildlife conservation organizations to [...]

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) will hold two public meetings to gather public comments on the Georgetown bighorn sheep herd (S32).
June 30, 2008 – 7:00 PM, Georgetown Community Center, 613 6th Street, Georgetown.
July 7, 2008 – 7:00 PM, Hunter Education Building, 6060 Broadway, Denver.
“The Georgetown herd is a high-profile group of animals [...]

One day in school, I was fascinated by the different species of wild sheep, and the white variety caught my eye. These beautiful animals intrigued me like no other animal. My dream was to go on a hunt for a trophy Dall’s Sheep some day.

They can be only hunted in Alaska or Canada, in very [...]

As a new natural gas drilling project is set to begin in the Garfield Creek State Wildlife area, officials of the Colorado Division of Wildlife say it is difficult to determine the effects of drilling on wildlife. In one area which has had drilling for about 10 years, the Bosque del Oso Wildlife Area, DOW [...]

Sonia Marzec, a wildlife manager for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, has been feeding a herd of about 15 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Glenwood Canyon all winter. The feeding program is part of a DOW four-year program to study and monitor the Glenwood Canyon sheep, one of five sites that is tracking and studying [...]