Montana is usually ranked as one of America’s best elk hunting states. Deer, antelope, mountain sheep, game birds and numerous other wildlife species are the annual targets of over 100,000 ...

Comparing two adjacent elk hunting districts in central Montana shows how hunter access can reduce elk populations as the state is being sued by landowners to reduce elk populations.

HELENA, Mont. — Montana's 2023 big game hunting season closed Nov. 26 with elk harvest trailing 2022 and slightly down from the five-year average. Lower elk harvest was correlated with the lack ...

The best part of Northwest Montana’s archery hunting season for elk will come in two weeks when bull elk will lose much of their normal caution and instinct for survival during the peak of the ...

What Spring did reveal is that the elk was shot by a “good, down-to-earth Montana hunter” who was hunting alone on Sept. 10.

In little more than a century Montana’s elk herd has grown from near extinction to a population that now greatly exceeds wildlife management objectives. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP ...

Numbers in south-central Montana show a continued increase, unlike deer populations in the area. In some hunting districts, elk numbers are at record highs. A majority of these elk, however, have ...

Five elk calves died last month after browsing on highly toxic landscape shrubs in a subdivision south of Missoula, Montana—according to a press release issued by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks ...

A Fergus County district court judge has granted the request of hunting and access groups to intervene in opposition to a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana elk hunting regulations.

The Montana Legislature has failed to recognize and deal with the serious threats of game farming to our wildlife and fair-chase hunting heritage. If unchecked, the problems will grow more severe.

Colorado's ongoing wolf reintroduction will change elk hunting in the state. Here are some things hunters can expect to happen.