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 ...

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 — 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 - Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is closing in on the funding biologists will need to conduct a study on elk survival and calf recruitment in the Bitterroot Valley that could help quantify ...

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will contribute $38,000 toward an ongoing elk survival study in Ravalli County, the Missoula-based nonprofit conservation organization announced on Friday. The study, ...

A federal judge has ruled that, prior to approving more logging projects, the Bitterroot National Forest must analyze whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...