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 ...

The elk herd in the East Fork of the Bitterroot may be on the rebound. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Craig Jourdonnais counted 56 elk calves per 100 cows during his July aerial flight ...

HAMILTON - The opportunity for hunters to harvest antlerless elk this year in the Bitterroot has dropped dramatically. The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission accepted an emergency request to ...

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 – 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 West ...

HAMILTON, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking information about several deer and one elk shot and wasted in the West Fork of the Bitterroot. Two mule deer bucks and one bull elk were ...

DARBY — Efficiency comes with practice. In the mountain meadows on the southern edge of the Bitterroot Valley, wildlife researchers were all about being efficient as they stalked tiny elk calves ...