Is climate change reducing the quantity and quality of Alaska's Dall sheep habitat? This is a hypothesis being tested by Tom Lohuis, a wildlife research biologist with the Alaska Department of ...

Dall sheep hunting will be closed in game units ... and impacting, sheep forage habitat at lower elevations," read the release. Of the 102 sheep observed in 2014 by NPS and department biologists ...

(14 kg). Dall's sheep (Ovis dalli) live in Alaska and the Yukon. They are the only thin-horned mountain sheep. Males have massive flaring and curling horns, but females have slender horns.

Dall sheep season opens in Alaska on Aug. 10 ... there could also be the negative implication of sheep habitat loss. If the population rebounds as it has in the past, likely no changes will ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - State officials will consider a proposal that would require goat and sheep owners to get permits in an effort to prevent the spread of disease between wild and ...

Dall sheep generally inhabit steep ... “It’s not normal sheep habitat, but it’s not l like it has much competition,” Young said. Sheep eat grasses and forbs, and plenty of both grow ...

also known as Dall sheep, which live around Faro and make their migration from their winter to summer habitat, a few kilometres away. Biologist Carrie McClelland looks for sheep from the deck ...