What the great Texas bighorn sheep experiment tells us about rewilding the West
But on a warm afternoon in December, 77 of these animals were captured near the town of Alpine and hauled back home to build ...
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Desert bighorn sheep are again roaming the Franklin Mountains
In the late 1800s, the species roamed the Trans-Pecos mountains in healthy numbers, but by the early 1960s, they'd been eradicated from West Texas due to unregulated hunting, resource competition ...
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Home on the Range: Bighorn sheep return to Franklin Mountains
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- It's been several months since a herd of 77 big horn sheep was released into the Franklin Mountains State Park as part of a larger effort to reintroduce the animals in ...
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'They're part of El Paso now': Desert bighorn sheep return to Franklin Mountains
Desert bighorn sheep once again roam the heights of the Franklin Mountains overlooking El Paso and the Borderlands. A herd of nearly 80 bighorn sheep were released for the first time as part of ...