As a wildlife field technician, Luke Metherell combines job, hobby and homework on weeklong backpacking trips in the mountains. A biology student at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Metherell ...

A Palmer man will pay more than $15,000 in fines, serve 10 days in jail and give up hunting for five years as part of a plea deal over illegal Dall sheep kills last year near Sutton. James Randall ...

What's the toughest hunt in Alaska? As hunters finish gearing up for the fall season, any number of them are sitting around campfires and Internet forums asking some version of this age-old question.

Thinhorn refers to the rare Stone’s sheep of northwest Canada and more common Dall’s sheep that live in Canada, the Yukon and Alaska. They are distantly related to the bighorn sheep that live in ...

Dall sheep hunting season opened in Alaska on Aug. 10. Just a week into the season, multiple hunters have already been cited by Alaska State Troopers for harvesting sub-legal sheep. In all three ...

KNICK WAS MAKING his stalk below us, and it looked as if he’d get a goat. I grabbed my camera gear and told my Indian guide, Charles Quock, to stay here on top of the mountain with the horses. Then I ...

ROCKY BOY’S RESERVATION, Montana — For the herd of bighorn sheep, the rocky cliffs were a safe place, with 360-degree views and plenty of nooks to blend into the gray rocks. The ground was sprinkled ...