Accordion side navigation Bighorn Sheep Desert Bighorn Sheep Overview Monitoring Efforts How to see a Desert Bighorn How You Can Help Scientific Literature & Works Cited Photos Contact Program Peninsular Desert Bighorn Sheep Overview Recovery and Conservation Range and Habitat Bighorn Behavior Photos Selected Program Literature Program Staff Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Overview Disease Risk Natural History Yosemite Bighorn Sequoia Kings Bighorn Migrating Mural Reintroductions See also: Bighorn Sheep Hunting How You Can Help Educate your friends! Most Californians do not know that bighorn sheep live in California. Public awareness is crucial to long-term conservation success. Send us your observations! Did you see some desert bighorn in the wild? We would love to know how many ewes, rams, and lambs you saw, as well their general location (GPS coordinates preferred), photos, and behavior. Email Paige Prentice, Paige.Prentice@wildlife.ca.gov. Join the Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep and/or the California Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation! These non-profit organizations are dedicated to the conservation and management of desert bighorn sheep. CDFW collaborates with SCBS and CAWSF to maintain artificial water sources and monitor desert bighorn populations. Desert bighorn would not be doing as well as they are without the tireless efforts of SCBS and CAWSF members! Stop Releasing Balloons! Due to wind patterns, many of the balloons released in Southern California, Las Vegas, and the Colorado River Valley end up in the Mojave Desert. Save bighorn sheep, tortoises and other desert wildlife by not releasing balloons. A desert bighorn ewe. Photo © Steve Yeager. Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep (SCBS) volunteers install a new water storage tank in the Clipper Mountains. Photo courtesy of SCBS. Mylar balloons tangled in a scrub-bush. The desert bighorn crew packs out countless balloons that end up in the desert. CDFW photo by Danielle Glass.