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 ...

When it comes to elk in Wyoming and Idaho, it's a case of different places, same problem. Herds are booming, but hunters can’t get on private land to ...

A migrating cow elk and her calf lead a group of elk during migration to winter range in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in Wyoming. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has recently donated to a major ...

Elk migrate in the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Jackson. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation recently made a $250,000 donation to support a collaborative effort to map migrations across the ...

Twenty-one winter elk feeding operations are overseen by the department in western Wyoming. The state began the program in the winter of 1909-1910 to ensure the prized big game animals didn’t starve ...

Bodnar plans Senate run as an independent, and Tester’s apparent support angers Democrats University of Montana President Seth Bodnar is expected to run for U.S. Senate as an independent, part of an ...

In the coming months, thousands of elk will migrate onto the National Elk Refuge, just outside the town of Jackson, where the Jackson Elk Herd winters. Historically, they’ve traveled long distances ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Following a long, cold winter with heavy snowfall that killed off weak and young wildlife, four ...

To fill in the gaps in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem elk migration data, this past year Riis and Middleton focused their study on the Cody elk herd, which winters near the town for which it is ...

Elk migrate through the Absaroka Range in this photo from the recent short film “Elk River,” which documents one Wyoming elk herd’s epic migration through the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

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. One of the primary migration routes passes ...