PARADISE VALLEY RANCH — Kneeling down with a twist of burning sage and smoking a bone tobacco pipe, Livingston hunter Mark Sherkenney gave ceremonial thanks to the cow elk he had just shot for ...

North Arkansas is home to 500 wild elk, thanks to a reintroduction program by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission back in the early 1980's. Just 7 years after elk were reintroduced to the Missouri ...

BOISE, Idaho - House Speaker Lawerence Denney is holding onto a bill that would regulate Idaho's elk ranches until opposing sides within the industry can reach an agreement on whether they want the ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The director of the Idaho Department of Agriculture will have authority to set regulatory fees paid by elk hunting ranches under legislation sent to the Senate on Tuesday. The ...

CONCRETE — The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either ...

Perched on my bookcase is a photo of me and the late Norman Strung that was taken in 1973. We are sitting in the sunlight on the deck of his cabin. Prior to this, we had been hunting elk for two solid ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo- Five hunters from across Missouri have won the chance to hunt elk, an animal well-known in the western United States. Francis Skalicky, with the Missouri Department of Conservation, ...

Walt Smith's hands felt unsteady as he aimed at an enormous bull elk on Dec. 10 in northern Michigan. But Smith felt the presence of his late son, Jeremy, as he pulled the trigger that day. Indeed, it ...

BONE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho state game officers, already trying to exterminate one herd of escaped domesticated elk near Yellowstone National Park, have shot and killed a farm-raised trophy bull elk that ...

Chris Thuerauf walks me through a gated farm lane with eight-foot-high fencing on both sides. Behind these tall fences are about 20 acres of separate enclosures for the 50 or so elk he has on hand at ...

The Colorado adage “I’d rather see a cow than a condo” applies to a new conservation easement in the Mancos Valley, but in this case, it relates to elk, too. The 225-acre Schultz Elk and Cattle Ranch ...