DOUGLAS—Wyoming Game and Fish Commissioners have OK’d a new compensation program that may resolve a sometimes-fiery debate over whether the state should pay livestock producers more for forage ...

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 hunters in Wyoming set a new record ...

Despite an increase in Wyoming elk populations, nonresident elk hunters could see a reduction in opportunity under a proposal from the state’s Wildlife Taskforce. The group sent a recommendation ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...