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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
Peninsular bighorn sheep have long migrated between California and Mexico, but plans to close gaps in the border wall may change that.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
Not unlike a bighorn, she handily scrambled up the craggy slope it stretched over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
Aiello, looking at data from a GPS collar on a computer screen, saw a bighorn on the Mexico side walking in a straight line, as if along something, appearing to try to cross.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
Matt went back over the mountain pass to the meadow where the bighorn sheep had tried to brain each other.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Sitting Bull, one of the Lakota leaders at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, became a household name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s offices in North Dakota received an anonymous package containing a human skull that was marked as coming from the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Jimmy knew about the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
Desert bighorns once thrived in serrated mountain ranges across the Mojave Desert, where they formed a “metapopulation” of groups connected by ancient trails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
“A wildlife overcrossing here would serve both bighorns and modern travelers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
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
Hicks sponsored legislation that became law two years ago specifying that if concern over bighorns in the Medicine Bow National Forest threatened existing domestic sheep operators that the state would remove the wild sheep.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 30, 2015
They were getting deeper into the mountains all the while, and Felix could even see where they had started to climb when heading upwards on that other occasion at the time they went after bighorns.
From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George
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