Faced with an aging elk herd and low bull calf numbers, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will recommend that elk hunting be by permit only in the East Fork of the Bitterroot next fall. The proposal to ...

Hunting in the Bitterroot will be different in many ways if tentative seasons now being considered are approved. The Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission agreed to consider proposed changes to elk, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BITTERROOT VALLEY, Mont. - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks game wardens are offering rewards up to $1,000 to anyone with information on two separate poaching incidents in the southern Bitterroot Valley ...

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 ...