State wildlife managers are stepping away from herd inventories based on landowner and hunter 'satisfaction' and toward ...

From the peaks of the Lost Creek Wilderness, more than 2,000 elk migrate annually down to South Park near the towns of Fairplay and Jefferson for the winter. These herds have been traveling these ...

Gray wolf pups are born nearly helpless: blind, deaf and lacking the acute sense of smell of their elders. They usually ...

There are no indications that the migrating elk herds are sick or injured. "It's more of a condition-dependent of just heavier snow — they're not a fan," Packer told KSL-TV on Monday.

Elk began migrating in larger numbers to the west side of Loveland starting five years or more ago. They end up on private land or open spaces managed by the city of Loveland or Larimer County ...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has rolled out significant updates for the 2025 elk hunting season on the National Elk Refuge (NER), located in Elk Hunt Area 77 near Jackson, Wyoming. These cha ...

A cow elk from the Jackson herd wanders down a mountain. Yale researcher Arthur Middleton and photojournalist Joe Riis received the first Camp Monoco Prize to study and track migrating elk in the ...

The National Park Service is clearing up any misconceptions on whether wildlife is migrating away from Yellowstone National Park.

During last year’s annual count of the Northern Range herd, wildlife biologists tallied 4,844 elk. Of that total, only 23 percent — or 1,130 of the herd — were found inside Yellowstone.

Elk are a barometer of the health for the entire ecosystem, said Arthur Middleton, a Yale ecologist who is also a research associate with the Wyoming Migration Initiative at the University of Wyoming.

PRINGLE - Hammered hard by hunters during the past three years, the Black Hills elk herd has fallen by 26 percent. But you wouldn't know it on Leonard Wood's place, where as many as 200 elk - many ...