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A helicopter crew of professional wildlife wranglers transports a bighorn sheep in February 2010 in the North Dakota Badlands. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently transported a herd of sheep from a heavily traveled stretch of U.S. Highway 85 to a more remote area to reduce the incidence of road-kill deaths. At least a half-dozen sheep near the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park have been killed by vehicles since 2010.

N.D. Game and Fish uses helicopter to move bighorn sheep away from Oil Patch highway

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently deployed a helicopter crew to capture and relocate 12 bighorn sheep in an effort to reduce road-kill incidents along a heavily traveled...

outdoors / environment Tue, Mar 12, 2013 - 8:06am

Byron Johnson, of Bemidji, takes of a thick coat of wool from one of the ewes.
(Anna Erickson / Enterprise)

Laporte sheep line up for a spring shearing before lambing begins

Byron Johnson, of Bemidji, purchases the wool based on weight and ships it to Illinois, where it is cleaned and processed. By the end of the shearing this week, Johnson...

news Sat, Apr 09, 2011 - 1:00pm

Frank Vogeltanz holds the quadruplet lambs born on his farm north of Laporte April 29. The quads are among the 26 sets of multiple births the sheep have had this spring. None of the ewes has had a single birth yet. (Sarah Smith / Enterprise)

Laporte farm has 26 sets of multiple births

Unexpected occurrences began last year at the Frank and Debra Vogeltanz farm north of Laporte. Jamal, the white ewe, gave birth to twins. No big deal, right? One was pitch...

news Wed, May 12, 2010 - 1:00pm