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 ...

The hunting is good in southwest Montana, but the elk herds roaming open ranges of state land in a section of Centennial Valley southeast of Dillon aren’t just good hunting — they’re a ...

The largest elk herd in Montana is located in the Big Snowy and Little Snowy Mountains of central Montana. Spread across two hunting districts, HDs 411 and 535, the herd was estimated at more than ...

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 correlat ...

Elk hunting regulations in Montana have been a source of recent controversy. Lori Iverson / USFWS SHARE A lawsuit filed in April by a group of Montana property owners accuses wildlife officials of ...

The old 2005 plan is badly outdated. I envisioned a meeting that would discuss possible solutions to the vast over-supply of elk, located mostly on large private ranches in central Montana.

Population estimates for mule and white-tailed deer and pronghorn are all generally below long-term averages throughout south-central Montana. Elk numbers, however, have increased over recent ...

The largest elk shot by an archer in Montana scored 409-2/8 and was taken by Chuck Adams on a private ranch in Eastern Montana. A “typical” elk has symmetrical antlers whereas a “nontypical ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) estimates that due to unregulated hunting, by 1910 North America’s entire elk herd had dwindled to fewer than 50,000 animals of which half were to be found ...

There are only a few pronghorn hunting opportunities in western Montana. Antelope numbers in HDs 215 and 291 are down from previous years but similar to 2022’s count.