HAMILTON – Bitterroot elk hunters should go into this season wearing a smile, knowing the area’s elk herd continues to rebound. After numbers dropped alarmingly low five years ago, state wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...