Onslaught of infections suggests that feeding operations are exacerbating the spread of a deadly prion disease that’s making ...

Growth in both herds over the years pushed Wisconsin's wild elk past a milestone in 2023. After calving that year the DNR estimated the state had 510 elk, a modern-era population record and the ...

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has ...

MTN's Chet Layman talks with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks about this winter's testing of elk for brucellosis in the Crazy ...

A brucellosis infection can be costly to cattle herds, and that's why Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) each winter tests elk, which can carry the disease. FWP spends a part of the winter ...

Interconnected herds mean diseased elk likely mingle with the hordes of ungulates that winter on the National Elk Refuge.

Wisconsin's elk population was estimated at a record high 544 in 2024, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The DNR has proposed a quota of 17 elk tags in the 2025 hunting season ...

For Colorado’s elk herds, while there are more herds with no detection, there is an overlap between where there is high prevalence in deer. According to Parks and Wildlife’s 2019 plan ...