At Utah Wild Sheep Foundation, our mission is to help put and keep sheep on Utah’s mountains. From habitat fragmentation and disease outbreaks to predation and human encroachment, the wild sheep of North America have historically faced significant threats to...
At Utah Wild Sheep Foundation, we have several conservation efforts that support our mission to put and keep sheep on Utah’s mountains. One of these is sheep nurseries. A bighorn sheep nursery helps to breed and nurture young sheep in an environment specifically...
The Utah Wild Sheep recovery effort is a major success story. With the financial resources from generous Utah Wild Sheep Foundation donors, partners with the National Wild Sheep Foundation and other Utah WSF Chapters, and a tremendous amount of work to negotiate...
Utah is home to an estimated 4,500-5,000 Bighorn Sheep. The Utah Wild Sheep Foundation has done an excellent job with keeping bighorn sheep on the mountains in Utah. We would love to share some interesting facts about bighorn sheep and why they are near and dear to...
KUIU teamed up with the Utah Wild Sheep Foundation for a bighorn sheep transplant project around Morenci, Arizona. Sheep have been coming down the town and near the roadways, leading to hundreds of sheep fatalities from vehicle collisions. We talked with Steve Najar,...
