BILLINGS – Feeding western Wyoming’s elk herds began in the winter of 1909-10 with a simple premise: to try and keep the animals from starving to death.

A long-awaited evaluation of northwest Wyoming’s elk feedgrounds kicks off in 2025 with the Jackson and Pinedale elk herds, two populations of wapiti that have long been lured toward human-doled ...

A nonprofit conservation organization is paying Wyoming cattle ranchers for hosting elk herds on their land. The initiative led by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition is billed as an effort to reduce ...

“The North Bighorn elk herd remains healthy and productive, and there should be a good opportunity to harvest an elk again in 2018.” Around Lander, “like much of Wyoming, elk populations are ...

CHEYENNE — Last year, the Game and Fish Department removed more than 100 head of elk from rangeland in southeastern Wyoming, salvaged the meat and donated it to Wyoming first ...

An adult cow elk found dead on the Scab Creek feedground in late December tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. This marks the third documented case of the disease in Wyoming’s Elk Hunt Area 98 ...

Bear River State Park in Evanston, Wyoming, holds countless memories for me. It was a place where I'd spend a day in the ...

Just to the north, the Laramie Peak Herd is even more inflated — its 12,000-plus elk are nearly 2.5 times the herd’s 5,000-head goal. When elk in these areas get heavily hunted they form mega ...

LANDER, Wyo. (AP) - For the first time, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department will embark on a comprehensive program to test elk in northeast Wyoming for brucellosis.

The number is high even though only 25 of 35 Wyoming elk herds were counted. The other 10 herds weren't counted because of their low numbers, wide dispersal and other factors.

Packs of hungry wolves are decimating Wyoming’s 35 herds of elk — right? Wrong. And yet that’s what some people continue to claim, even as studies repeatedly disprove the accusation.