This year’s elk season is a historic one in Colorado. It’s the first time in more than 80 years that big-game hunters have shared the landscape with an established population of gray wolves. This is ...
Nineteen elk were killed by wolves earlier this week in what’s being called a “surplus kill,” according to Wyoming wildlife officials. Wolves killed seventeen elk calves and two adult cows near ...
Mature elk can run 40 mph when they become so inspired, and recent footage from Yellowstone National Park shows that young elk are likewise fleet of foot when their lives are at stake. The ...
What’s the greatest threat to Colorado’s elk population? Habitat loss, climate change, chronic wasting disease or wolves? According to many Colorado hunters, the answer is “wolves.” I recently heard ...
According to a 2003 and 2004 study in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. Geological Survey, park officials and the University of Minnesota, wolves accounted for about 15 percent of newborn elk calf ...
Scientific research has long assumed gray wolves are non-migratory during springtime, staying anchored to tend to litters of nearly helpless pups. For the first weeks of life, after all, pups are ...