The desert bighorn sheep were once native to El Paso in the late 1800s, however due to unregulated hunting, resource competition from domestic sheep/goats, and disease, native desert bighorns were ...
Desert bighorn sheep once again roam the heights of the ... But these populations were largely decimated by 1960, because of over-hunting, and diseases brought by domesticated animals ...
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 ...
But unregulated hunting and competition for resources ... 260-mile drive southeast from Franklin Mountains. “The desert bighorn sheep were captured at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management ...