At the behest of state lawmakers, Wyoming in 2024 took unprecedented steps to regulate shed antler hunting — actions that ...

The illegal shooting of bull 244 is a tremendous loss for the central elk herd and citizens of Wisconsin,” Christina Kizewski, central elk herd biologist, said Monday in a news release. ...

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock as a way to treat them more like elk or deer rather than like cattle. Because the two tribes share the same ...

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JACKSON — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has proposed increasing hunting opportunities for elk in the Fall Creek and Pinedale herds, both of which are slightly above their population ...

We cannot confirm that, but a large population of the United States’ elk population lives in Wyoming, Colorado, and Idaho. So it’s an educated guess. And in case you didn’t know, elk are rather speedy ...

Just one mile from Elk Island (the largest island in Wyoming—not a hotly contested title), the hulking Mount Moran explodes up 7,000 feet from the lakeshore. It’s so close you might be able to spot ...

Fish and Game’s Elk Management plan establishes population objectives for each elk zone. Those objectives are influenced by a variety of factors, including Fish and Game’s responsibility to minimize ...

In Wyoming, 109,000 elk roam the wide-open spaces. The state is known for its wildlife, and elk are a big part of that. The herds in places like Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons are particularly ...

A large herd of elk graze in a Wyoming farmer's field. Photo by Alice Jones Webb A nonprofit conservation organization is paying Wyoming cattle ranchers for hosting elk herds on their land. The ...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s 21 elk feedgrounds are denoted by gray circles in this map. The yellow star marks the federally managed National Elk Refuge. (U.S. Geological Survey) How it ...

Several senators from northwestern Montana who supported the proposal said the wolf population there has been increasingly encroaching on the elk population in that area of the state. But Senate ...