A Dall sheep ewe and lamb in Chugach State Park. (Bill Sherwonit photo) Years ago, when I lived on Anchorage’s Hillside, I would sometimes watch Dall sheep from my front yard.

Employed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Metherell’s research is part of a wider project to find whether climate change is making the Chugach Range less hospitable to Dall sheep.

This week, the Federal Subsistence Board closed federal lands in Alaska's central Brooks Range for sheep hunters.

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 ...

FAIRBANKS — Even when he walked up and got a good look at the Dall sheep ram he had just shot in the Brooks Range, Fairbanks hunter Bill Foster didn’t know what he’d done. Of course, how can ...

Many Dall sheep populations across Alaska have been dropping for years, a decline biologists attribute primarily to weather events. As weather patterns are impacted by climate change, it is unclear ...