JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) - Missouri’s first elk hunting season resumes Saturday with the first firearms portion of the hunting season. It comes after years of restoration efforts of the once ...

He was the first of five Missouri hunters selected for elk permits to harvest an elk. Benthall has been deer hunting off and on for 25 years and had not hunted elk before.

In addition to that, 92 Kentucky translocated elk were released in 2017 and 2019 on the Flambeau River State Forest. In all, the Clam Lake Elk Range had a 2020 population estimate of about 300.

Jason Burtness, 51, knew how lucky he was in the spring of 2020 when he drew a non-resident non-member elk tag to hunt North Dakota’s Standing Rock Reservation, which straddles the North and South ...

Elk are a native species in Missouri but were hunted to extinction in the state through unregulated hunting during the late 1800s, according to MDC. About 100 elk were reintroduced to the Ozarks ...

In the West, where elk hunting is most common, hunters can pursue elk from an elevation as low as 4,000 feet to well above the timberline. You need to decide what type of experience you want.

Logging keeps you in shape. Once hunting season starts, the loggers hunt the elk so hard they run the hair off their bellies. It’s almost not fair if loggers have a gun. I wanted to get an elk, but ...