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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

Desert bighorns are acrobats with soft, rubbery feet and spiraling horns that once thrived in mountain ranges across the Mojave Desert, where they formed a “metapopulation” of groups connected by ancient trails.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

“They want more bighorns on the landscape. We want more bighorns on the landscape. We don’t want to put the domestic sheep off the landscape.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2018

Desert bighorns disappeared from the range in the late 1990s.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2017

Indeed, he could easily make out the bighorns now, and even counted them several times.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George