Idaho Fish and Game Commission recently approved a new six-year elk management plan after staff solicited public review and adapted the draft plan to reflect public input. The updated elk plan is not ...

Idaho Fish & Game hopes to relocate 40 resident elk and "lethally remove" 60 more. A licensed meat processor would butcher the elk and ultimately donate the meat to local food banks.

In the Panhandle Region and across Idaho, adult cow elk survival has been relatively stable from year-to-year. Elk calves, however, experience much more variable survival during their first year of ...

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game plans a combination of translocation and lethal removal of about 100 resident, nonmigratory elk on private land west of Emmett this spring and summer.

Elk, the stalwarts of the mountains generally speaking, have stayed relatively healthy and stable. Statewide, mule deer numbers also appear to be improving, while eastern Idaho’s muleys—after ...

BOISE, Idaho - Hunters will be allowed to shoot escaped farm-raised trophy elk that fled a private game reserve in eastern Idaho, the governor announced Friday. The so-called "depredation hunt" opens ...

SWEET, Idaho — Dogs are the animals known as man's best friend but in Sweet, Idaho, that animal happens to be an elk. They call him "Elliot the Elk," and he has made the town of Sweet his home for ...

Despite legislative testimony saying it was unlikely to happen, some of Idaho’s domestic elk farms have proven to be porous with multiple examples of wild animals getting into the high-fenced ...

SPOKANE – Idaho’s traditional elk-hunting breadbasket – those mountainous, backcountry units stretching from the Selway country down through the Salmon River country – continues to falter at producing ...