The Eastern Shoshone has voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock. The change is a way to treat buffalo more like elk or deer rather than like cattle.

The town of Estes Park is home to upwards of 3,000 elk, so interactions with wildlife occur daily. If you are lucky enough to ...

JACKSON — The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approved an elk season last Tuesday that would reduce harvest on Jackson Elk Herd hunt areas, a move aimed at reversing the herd’s multiyear ...

JACKSON COUNTY (WLUK) -- One of the elk transplanted to Wisconsin to establish a herd was illegally shot, the Department of Natural Resources says. The death was reported March 18. The animal was ...

The elk was part of a reintroduction program and contributed significantly to the herd's growth. The Wisconsin DNR is seeking information from the public regarding the poaching incident.

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been working to manage and respond to outbreaks of the fatal neurological ...

And for the first time antlerless elk may be hunted in the central herd. The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board is scheduled to vote on the hunting proposal at its February 26 meeting in Madison.

The creation of a management plan to expand Minnesota’s elk herds is moving forward. The current elk herds of northwest Minnesota may have some of the herd picked up and moved to northeast ...