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Droves of Wyoming residents will click over to Game and Fish’s website on June 19 to review their draw results for elk hunting tags. Thousands will be looking to see ...
JACKSON - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says the estimated number of elk in the state is well above the agency's goal population. The most recent elk count shows more than 93,000 elk in the ...
BILLINGS – Feeding western Wyoming’s elk herds ... A 2020 study using the Pinedale elk herd predicted that, “continuation of feeding, with the current elk population management, could ...
Environmentalists’ concerns about elk have prompted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to suspend coal-bed methane drilling in part of the gas-rich Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming.
Wyoming Game and Fish tested thousands of animals for the always fatal disease, which spread rapidly through ungulates last ...
A pack of wolves slaughtered a herd of elk in one night, Wyoming wildlife officials said ... and about 7% of the population has been lost to wolves this winter. “There is a significant concern ...
Experts concluded that ending supplemental winter feeding altogether would have the best long-term projected outcomes for Wyoming elk herds, and that even a three-year phaseout would have potentially ...
JACKSON, Wyo. (WyoFile) — An always-fatal disease that wildlife biologists expect will diminish northwest Wyoming’s elk population for decades has spread for the first time into the state-run ...
There were 29,000 elk killed in the 2023-’24 season, an all-time high for the Equality State, home to some 109,000 wapiti — a population that keeps climbing, despite the high harvest. Wyoming ...
Wyoming wildlife managers on Wednesday ... The feedground’s population goal is 500 elk, though closer to 800 animals gathered at the site during two recent winters, according to Game and Fish ...