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 – Researchers are back in the Bitterroot tracking elk calves. After a two-year hiatus, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has teamed with Montana State University to see how young elk are ...

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 ...

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 ...