The new management plan would also adjust FWP’s herd size objectives. Elk population management goals in 72 Montana elk hunting districts have been increased, primarily in the eastern half of ...

Yellowstone National Park's northern elk herd is notably older than other Montana elk herds and about half the size it was in the mid-1990s, according to recent studies by the Montana Department ...

BILLINGS (AP) — The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department has issued kill permits to ranchers and extended the hunting season to try to reduce the size of an elk ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- An acclaimed elk herd in Yellowstone National Park took a major hit last year, with biologists saying almost one in four of the animals were lost, mainly to predators and ...

Despite a sizable drop in the number of wolves residing inside Yellowstone National Park, the park's Northern Range elk herd suffered a 20 percent decline in 2010, according to an ...

Montana wildlife commissioners will weigh in for the first time Monday on a broad plan to protect against animal disease around Yellowstone by reducing the size of some elk herds, ...

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials tallied a 24 percent increase this winter in the size of a well-known elk herd that migrates between Yellowstone National Park and Montana, but ...

But the state of Montana wants to cut the herd size in half, ... and cattle ranchers aren't demanding elk be restricted to the park. Only bison are mostly constrained to park boundaries.