Elk

Some people call the activity bowhunting for cottontail rabbits. Mark Zornes calls it losing arrows in the sage brush.

The habitat that was once ideal for elk has aged and led to a dramatic drop in numbers. Predators like gray wolves and, to a lesser extent, black bears and mountain lions, are holding them down.

A single gunshot, rated at about 140dB, can cause permanent hearing damage, according to government guidelines. Maybe it's just a little at a time, but the damage adds up hunt after hunt.

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Pro shops are adding lanes, organizing new leagues, and stocking the latest bows to ensure First Quarter customers.

When it comes to hunting big whitetails, Southwestern Kansas isn’t on anybody’s radar — yet. But it should be.

Organizers of a disputed weekend predator derby in central Idaho's mountains say 21 coyotes but no wolves were shot by more than 230 hunters who participated.

Ever since Missouri discovered Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in 11 deer in captive operations in northeast Missouri in 2010 and 2011 and 10 deer in the nearby free-ranging herd, deer farms have been under fire.

Ever wondered how Game and Fish departments track and collar animals? In New Mexico, they do it by air. Watch as an elk herd is tracked, followed and collared.

Eighty-thousand hunters try to bag an elk in Idaho each year, spending more than $70 million on the pursuit. Few are happy to have wolves as competition.

With rapidly changing weather characterizing much of the fall, the 2013 hunting season showed a successful increase in big game hunting.

Five surgeries and five months later, Nic Patrick still carries the scars, but feels no animosity toward the grizzly sow that nearly bit his head off June 20 on the South Fork.

It's important to remember that wildlife are wild. Watch as a photographer learns that lesson from a young bull elk in the Smokey Mountains.

Michigan is the sixth state to authorize wolf hunting following the removal of federal protections in recent years, a testament to the strong comeback of a species that was close to eradication in the lower 48 states.

The state Game and Fish Department will continue a surveillance program for chronic wasting disease during the fall hunting seasons.

Motorists strike and kill .an average of 114 mule deer, 36 elk and 15 moose each year on Teton County roads.

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