MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks is reporting that west-central Montana hunter check stations are seeing more deer and elk harvested than last year, and more than the five-year ...

As an Eastern bowhunter, I’d dreamed of chasing bugling bull elk out West. This September, I finally located a bull that read ...

Hunters at the Darby check station reported the most elk harvested on opening weekend since 2011 — 73 this year, according to a news release Monday from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. That compared ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The following is a press release from theMontana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; Region 2: After the first two weekends of big game season, west-central Montana hunter check stations show ...

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 annual ...

The 68 cow elk that were shipped Wednesday from the Big Velvet Ranch elk farm south of Darby to the Crow Indian Reservation are roaming wild in the Pryor and Big Horn mountains of southeastern Montana ...

Despite uncooperative weather in the final days, the 2017 big game season closed with the highest tallies in four years in Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 2. Montana's five-week big game hunting season ...

In my mind I’ve packed gear into my hunting pack a dozen times. I’ve imagined the smell of morning dew on sage and the crunch of the cured short grass under my newly oiled hunting boots. In reality, I ...

GREAT FALLS — It reads like a forensic crime drama — and in a very real sense it is. A Montana game warden learns of an unusual elk shot along the Rocky Mountain Front. The animal has physical ...

Elk management in Montana is broken. FWP’s estimated elk numbers exceed sustainable population objectives in three-quarters of hunting districts, and have for years. It’s not uncommon for hunting ...

A helicopter chases elk to radio-collar them in order to help improve management in the north Sapphire Mountains and the rest of Montana. The North Sapphire Elk Research Project collected information ...