Some species are at their most active in winter, whether they’re flying, feeding, or mating. From elephant seals in ...
JACKSON - An environmental group has listed the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole among what it says are the nation's 10 most imperiled wildlife refuges. The group Public Employees for Environmental ...
Just before sunset on Monday evening, Ryan Kempfer, a wildlife photographer and guide, was wrapping up a four-hour stint looking for a calf with a rare coat on the National ...
JACKSON — The population of the Jackson Elk Herd is right where wildlife managers want it, but an excess number of animals are wintering on the National Elk Refuge. Aerial counts done recently found ...
JACKSON — The National Elf Refuge has ended its feeding program in anticipation of warmer weather. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reported feed amounts were gradually reduced over the last week as ...
A record proportion of the Jackson herd has been drawn to the refuge in some recent years as the elk are redistributing. Overall numbers of the tawny ungulates have climbed in the dozen years that ...
1 A National Elk Refuge Sleigh Rides tour group travels between herds of elk on Jan. 8. KATHRYN ZIESIG / NEWS&GUIDE Services ...
In the coming months, thousands of elk will migrate onto the National Elk Refuge, just outside the town of Jackson, where the Jackson Elk Herd winters. Historically, they’ve traveled long distances ...
CORRECTION: Predicted CWD prevalence rates and population sizes have been updated in the third paragraph of this story. The prior numbers used were for a slightly broader geographic area, but the ...
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife managers have decided to stop supplemental feeding on the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming earlier than normal because warm weather is melting snow and opening up ...
The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports that biologists are worried that all the feces at the 39-square-mile U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preserve could cause health problems for the thousands of elk ...