HAMILTON - The Bitterroot's elk herd is ailing. The ratio between cows and calves in some hunting districts is as low as biologists have ever seen. In many places, it's half of what biologists ...

With snow slow to arrive this so far this hunting season, fewer Bitterroot elk hunters have filled their freezers as compared to the same time last year. So far, 95 elk have come through the Darby ...

Bitterroot elk hunters should go into this season wearing a smile, knowing the area’s elk herd continues to rebound. After numbers dropped alarming low five years ago, state wildlife biologists ...

The Groff family's properties, which collectively span more than 650 acres in Victor, have been in the family for six ...

HAMILTON — Elk numbers are on the rise in the Bitterroot. It’s been a while since anyone could say those words. This year’s aerial spring count found 7,373 elk in the five hunting districts ...

HAMILTON – Researchers are back in the Bitterroot tracking elk calves. After a two-year hiatus, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has teamed with Montana State University to see how young elk are ...

There were at least five elk calves killed after consuming toxic ornamental plants in mid-January in the Florence area of the Bitterroot Valley.

For example, a study of Bitterroot Valley elk published in 2016 by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks found “nearly half of adult mortality was due to causes beyond management control, and because ...

HAMILTON - In an elk’s world, the east and west forks of the Bitterroot are about as different as night and day. Not only do elk have a better chance of becoming a predator’s next meal in the ...

With snow slow to arrive this so far this hunting season, fewer Bitterroot elk hunters have filled their freezers as compared to the same time last year.