This year, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Bitterroot-based biologist, Rebecca Mowry, counted 7,768 elk during the annual spring tally that dates back to 1965. And Mowry is certain that she missed ...

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

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 think ...

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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 ...

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 that ...

HAMILTON, Mont. - Montana wildlife officials say the elk herd in the East Fork of the Bitterroot Valley could be rebounding. Craig Jourdonnais of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks says he counted 56 ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont. — There were at least five elk calves killed after consuming toxic ornamental plants in mid-January in the Florence area of the Bitterroot Valley. The calves were found dead by ...

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — Biologists with the University of Montana and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks are starting a one-year study on mountain lions living in the east and west fork drainages of the ...