Nicholas Cooper started hunting through the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' Apprentice Hunter Program at 10 years old. He's taken a turkey, a doe and a couple of young bucks, but he's never fired a ...

Elk harvest lags well behind average however, with 143 elk checked thus far at the station, a decline of 28 percent less than ...

Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks are seeking information on a bull elk that was killed recently and left to ...

According to FWP biologists, the bull elk in southeast Montana was showing symptoms of the disease in mid-October and appeared very thin and lethargic. It was hanging out at a water tank for ...

So far this season, 3,017 hunters have visited check stations across the region, an increase from the 2023 hunting season.

a region with the highest concentration of the disease in Montana. This hunter-harvested animal was the first CWD-positive elk in the Ruby Mountains. According to FWP biologists, the bull elk in ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials announced on Friday that an elk in southeast ...

BILLINGS – Moose numbers are stable to increasing in three regions selected as representative of Montana’s moose population, ...

MILES CITY – Montana ... elk was located in Hunting District 704, on private land just north of Custer National Forest. This area hosts some of the largest concentrations of elk in the region ...

The southeast Montana elk was located in Hunting District 704, on private land just north of Custer National Forest. This area hosts some of the largest concentrations of elk in the region. The bull ...