DOUGLAS – Wyoming Game and Fish Commissioners have OK ... more for forage eaten off their rangeland by overpopulated elk herds. The solution establishes criteria for payment eligibility ...

Photograph by Addy Falgoust / NPS Wyoming and Idaho might be next-door neighbors, but the two states saw vastly different elk harvest numbers and success rates during the 2023 hunting season. Elk ...

It’s been nearly five years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision recognizing tribes’ treaty-based hunting ... for killing elk in a national forest in Wyoming without a ...

“Implementing liberal elk hunting seasons does not always work when there is limited public access,” King said. Last year, Wyoming’s Access Yes program paid to open access to more than 2.6 ...

A bill introduced in the Wyoming state legislature last month ... But data from the 2022-2023 elk hunting season showed that, with transferrable landowner tags on the table, the number of tags ...

IRON MOUNTAIN—The professional elk killer can always find elk. Whether he can kill them depends on where they stand. “That’s kind of my limiting factor: Whether or not they’re on the ...

Such fervor has prompted officials in the West, home to the nation’s largest elk herds, to limit shed hunting on public lands. Several states now have winter bans. Wyoming requires nonresident ...

Whitney Curtis for The New York Times On an OnX screen, Elk Mountain in southern Wyoming looks like prime hunting ground. Eleven thousand feet high, streaked with aspen groves and alpine meadows ...

In Wyoming, hunting is a family ... It was about 9 a.m. and they had been hunting for about an hour and a half when they spotted eight elk walking on the next hill over, about 200 yards away.

and two months since a lower federal court issued an order related to tribal elk hunting in the Bighorns. Still, many of the fundamental legal and policy questions about where, when and if certain ...