. Freezing rain drizzled relentlessly on the drab tans and browns of an Arctic autumn. The clouds and fog made it just as difficult to see our tent 1,000 feet below as it did to see my quarry, a ...

The population of Dall sheep in the Northwest Arctic has declined by more than half in the past three years, prompting state and federal agencies to halt the annual hunt. Results of the most ...

Though relatively few people visit this wilderness park, it is prime habitat for five of Alaska’s most charismatic wildlife species: grizzly bears, moose, caribou, wolves and Dall sheep. Bordering ...

Perhaps an arctic ground squirrel would suffice ... She and the lamb soon caught up with the other sheep. Dall sheep, after all, are tough critters. The biologists were trying to capture the ...

Dall sheep season opens in Alaska on Aug. 10 and ... according to Wendling. However, as the Arctic warms and habitats change, there could also be the negative implication of sheep habitat loss.

The Arctic Caribou Inn and a small general store ... and just a few minutes later spotted a cluster of Dall sheep clinging to the side of a mountain near Toolik. The sheep rest on what seem ...

Arctic foxes aren't always white ... You can tell the age of a dall sheep by looking at its horns. The animal's horns grow in a way that produces rings called annuli, and the age of dall sheep ...

In this basin we would find this beautiful, snow-white Dall sheep of the arctic and subarctic ranges in the Yukon and Alaska. The old man had not been in the range for ten years, he told us; but the ...

Dall sheep, arctic foxes and many other wildlife species. * Most of the Arctic Refuge's coastal plain is designated critical habitat for federally threatened polar bears. Mother polar bears with ...

Now there are Dall sheep all around me ... they were bringing back memories of icy winds fragrant with fir and balsam, of the smell of sheep beds and arctic willow, of tiny, perfect alpine flowers, ...