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 – 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 ...

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, ...

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — Mountain lions in the southern reaches of the Bitterroot Valley will soon be donating their DNA for the cause of science. Most of the big cats involved in the new study won’t ...

“These elk were way back in the backcountry.” In HD 240, which includes a good part of the Bitterroot Range, there has been a growing concern that elk have been moving down onto the valley floor and ...

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 ...