As an always-lethal disease spreads on elk feedgrounds, pilot projects are underway to find more low-elevation habitat for ...

Wyoming ranchers are being paid to let elk winter on their land, a strategy conservationists hope will reduce the spread of ...

Not even park rangers are off limits for angry bull elk.

Yellowstone’s bison have merged into a “single breeding population,” according to a new study. Because of that, might be necessary at some point ...

Wolves culled the elk. Fewer elk means more aspens can grow. More beavers are attracted to the trees. It's called a trophic ...

Rocky Mountain Elk are another massive mammal that draw wildlife watchers to Yellowstone National Park. While they are not ...

Notoriously elusive, cougars vary their range in response to their prey, mostly elk and deer. In winter they favor the shallow snow in the northern reaches of Yellowstone. This cougar was caught ...

But the huge fire of 1988 ultimately produced few large trees. The elimination of Yellowstone's wolves allowed the elk to browse aspens unchecked. Finally, Ripple and Larson decided to look within ...

A Yellowstone National Park page describing the ... park visitors should stay 25 yards (about two bus lengths) away from bison and elk. They should stay 100 yards (about eight bus lengths) away ...

Hallac ticked through a list of interrelated concerns, nagging issues in Yellowstone familiar to us both: bison management, elk migration, grizzly bear conservation, private land development in ...

As the Yellowstone Wolf Project celebrates its 30th anniversary, Hebblewhite and SunderRaj are gearing up for a new collaboration investigating the survival rates of elk calves in the Northern Range.