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Harmon alerted stakeholders, including Aiello, who was immediately concerned about how the wire might affect a herd of bighorn sheep that migrates across the border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Asked about the bighorn death, Becky Farmer, a spokesperson for the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
She said border officials rejected these ideas, but signaled tentative support for watering holes for bighorn, small wildlife passages in the wall and floodgates to be left open during storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
But bighorn — with their broad, curved horns — can’t squeeze through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
His only chance was to reach the border, and he bounded with an agility that would have impressed a bighorn sheep.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Gen. George Armstrong Custer lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn six weeks after the exhibition opened, but the government’s Indian wars went on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
After West neglected the ranch, the rapper, 48, returned the 6,713-acre Bighorn Mountain Ranch to the Flitner family, who first sold it to him in 2019.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
The battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was a high point, but not a turning point.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
Sitting with my wife, Judy, in our 1896 cabin in the Bighorn Mountains during a snowstorm, with a fire burning, discovering an author I’ve never read before.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Bighorn sheep are suitable to us and similar to mouflons in most respects except a crucial one: they lack the mouflon’s stereotypical behavior whereby some individuals behave submissively toward other individuals whose dominance they acknowledge.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The NPS estimates that up to 200 bighorns live in Joshua Tree with a total population of around 13,000 across regions of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
“A wildlife overcrossing here would serve both bighorns and modern travelers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
Hunters and state biologists killed the remaining population of bighorns in the Tendoy range beginning in 2015 after the population had struggled for years with disease.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2020
Thirty bighorns were brought to the Catalinas that year and more were brought in each of the next three years.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2017
“Yes, or other things also—bear or bighorns, I should think very likely.”
From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson
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