The elk moved onto Mount Jumbo a few weeks ago, but Friday marks the official closure date to protect Missoula’s urban winter range residents. Public access to most of Mount Jumbo north and ...

“Those communities are historic elk winter range,” Guthrie said. In the past, a staff member with Idaho Fish and Game had to distribute 80-pound bags of feed by hand, every other day, to ...

JACKSON — Elk have returned to their historic winter range in the Gros Ventre River drainage, and one theory for their reappearance is the targeted killing of resident wolves. One winter ago ...

Fires in northern Harney and southern Grant County this summer, for instance, burned significant swaths of elk winter range, Foster said. But he expects the elk will migrate to areas with better ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeking public comment on proposed elk management plans in northwest Colorado that seek to maintain the current population targets in the case of the majority of ...

Another aspect of elk occupancy agreements is that they compensate ranchers for keeping their livestock out of areas that WGFD identifies as “crucial winter range” for big game. This allows elk to ...