In Montana, elk numbers grew from 65,000 in 1990 to 160,000 in 2015, ... High Country News relies on donations as well as subscription fees to produce independent reporting on the West.

Our first ascent was up a small drainage we knew held elk. Last summer, Alec had a seasonal job with the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Department, and on his free days he scouted these mountains.

An bull elk killed by a Montana bowhunter in September is a state record, the largest recorded in the U.S. in 48 years – and in the running to be a world record.

There are 82 elk-ranching operations in Montana, and in contrast to financially stressed grain and cattle operations, the elk industry seems ripe for expansion.

Plastics are destroying aquatic life in the oceans. Wind turbines are killing bats and birds that fly into them. And vacated wire is causing slow, painful deaths for elk on the Idaho-Montana state ...

Montana game wardens traveled to five other states and, with the assistance of game wardens in those states, collected 18 illegally killed wildlife from Montana. Seven elk, six mule deer, three ...

Montana, the fourth largest state in the U.S., has a populace of 1.02 million and receives over ten times that number in visitors annually. People come to explore Glacier National Park and the ...

For epic road trips, Montana is hard to beat. Big Sky Country road trip routes are packed with incredible views from the Beartooth Scenic Byway to the famous Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier ...

Steve Felix brought down the 7x8-point Elk bull in Powder River County, in the southeast corner of Montana. The Boone and Crockett Club has confirmed its rack scores 430 inches, making it the ...

From Arizona to northwest Montana, there are hundreds of thousands elk roaming the Western U.S. today. Here are some of the best states to hunt them in, based on record book entries submitted to ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after authorities said they landed a Black Hawk helicopter in a mountain pasture on a private ranch to ...

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