Colorado elk hunting is some of the best that the West has to offer. While Colorado offers excellent elk hunting opportunities and access, hunters still have to spend a lot of time planning their ...

Their concerns are warranted. Colorado is home to more elk than any other U.S. state, and it’s far-and-away the most popular elk-hunting destination for nonresidents. A staggering 186,028 people ...

Colorado is the latest state to acknowledge long-standing tension around elk hunting opportunities amid concerns of point creep, pricey auction tags, shrinking OTC opportunities, and rising tag fees.

but they also must input where they’d like to hunt it: CPW breaks the state into 185 game management units (GMUs). If the elk in an area are spawning like rabbits, CPW might grant more tags to help ...

visit Colorado Parks and Wildlife's website. Why is shed antler hunting prohibited during these months? To reduce stress on wintering elk, deer, pronghorn antelope and moose during the time of ...

Colorado wildlife managers are mobilizing to reverse a decline of elk in the southwestern quarter of the state by controlling hunting and protecting wild habitat, aiming for increased calf ...

For many hunters, elk are the pinnacle of the big game world. They are big, wear heavy antlers, and live in some of the most beautiful wilderness North America has to offer. They can take hunters ...

Recreation tied to wildlife — hunting, fishing, tourism — is big business in Colorado. It generates $5 billion a year and supports 40,000 jobs. The estimated 309,000 elk that roam Colorado ...

elk and pronghorn antelope — particularly among herds in the Rio Blanco and Moffat County region. That led Colorado Parks and Wildlife to make dramatic cuts to the number of big game hunting ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife spots rare 1 in 100,000 piebald cow elk The elk population dwindled due to unregulated market hunting, according to CPW. Now, Rocky Mountain elk are one of the greatest ...

This year’s elk season is a historic one in Colorado. It’s the first time in more than 80 years that big-game hunters have shared the landscape with an established population of gray wolves.