Grizzly bears continue to move back into prairie country in Montana. Near tiny rural communities, they’ve been attacking ...

Elk hunting has been an emotional topic for some Montana hunters in recent years, with rallies on the Capitol steps, special conferences between differing interest groups and bills introduced in ...

Elk hunting has been an emotional topic for some Montana hunters in recent years, with rallies on the Capitol steps, special conferences between differing interest groups and bills introduced in ...

So, low elk numbers are a problem throughout Northwest Montana. FWP gathered in all the public comments from that meeting and will consider them as they draft a new state elk management plan.

Montana is usually ranked as one of America’s best elk hunting states. Deer, antelope, mountain sheep, game birds and numerous other wildlife species are the annual targets of over 100,000 ...

The largest elk herd in Montana is located in the Big Snowy and Little Snowy Mountains of central Montana. Spread across two hunting districts, HDs 411 and 535, the herd was estimated at more than ...

The actual population in those districts is 52,000. “We need to harvest almost 12,000 just to stay even to prevent any further growth,” said John Vore, chief of Montana Fish, Wildlife and ...

In Montana, elk numbers grew from 65,000 in 1990 to 160,000 in 2015, despite the reintroduction of wolves. Hunting is the main tool for keeping elk in check, ...

This unusual two-year-old elk harvested 16 months ago in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains is FWP's "Elk Zero." "It wasn’t just an elk," remarked Dave Holland, game warden captain for Montana ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A Bozeman man's 3-minute video of hundreds of elk hopping a fence and crossing a road east of Bozeman — and the perseverance of one straggler to keep up with the group — is ...

An elk taken by a Montana bowhunter this past season was the largest ever taken in the state and the largest recorded in the U.S. in 48 years — and ...

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