The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has proposed increasing hunting opportunities for elk in the Fall Creek and Pinedale ...

Wyoming ranchers are being paid to let elk winter on their land, a strategy conservationists hope will reduce the spread of ...

A wintering elk herd numbering in the hundreds can often ... about 300 elk were browsing the greening grass on the natural area and walking through the vineyard on the adjacent Sweet Heart Winery ...

Like plenty of other Wyoming stockgrowers, Luke Lancaster is an outdoorsman who appreciates seeing wildlife on his Star Valley ranch.

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 ...

Across all three years, elk calf survival was measured at 36.8% – high enough to promote herd stability and possibly even growth. A 2024 survey of the elk herd did show the population to be ...

At the time the plan was written, at least 31 of Colorado’s 54 deer herds (57%), 16 of 43 elk herds (37%), and 2 of 9 moose herds (22%) were infected. Once detected, it can be impossible to ...