Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty years ago, spotting one of the goliath-size, deer-like creatures in the Eastern Kentucky mountains would have seemed almost ...

For roughly 150 years, the sound of bugling elk was missing from Tennessee’s mountains — a silence so long-lasting it felt permanent. The state’s native Eastern elk subspecies disappeared in the ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources appears willing to keep a plan moving forward to restore wild elk to eastern Minnesota. DNR Commissioner Sarah Stromen, in a recent letter to Fond du Lac ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Museum announced on Friday an Eastern elk skeleton that is now on display in the “West Michigan Habitats” exhibit. The skeleton on display is made up of ...

Howard Whiteman is a professor of wildlife and conservation biology at Murray State University and director of the Watershed Studies Institute. In 2014 I drew a coveted Kentucky elk tag from the state ...

About 75 elk have been released into Virginia in a restoration project for the species. (Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation) Chronic Wasting Disease Found in New Area Chronic wasting disease – an always ...

As much as any species, wild free-roaming elk symbolize the wealth of Montana’s wildland and wildlife habitats. Of the 28 U.S. states that currently host resident free-roaming elk populations, only ...

Thirty years ago, spotting one of the goliath-size, deer-like creatures in the Eastern Kentucky mountains would have seemed almost mystical. Elk hadn't roamed those hills in more than a century. But ...