As we attempt to solve the mystery, I think it is important to be comprehensive and discuss the effects of trophy hunting. For millennia, elk have co-evolved along with predators in very predictable ...

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KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. — They’d spotted the big bull elk the previous weekend, but when Ryker Copp went afield with his dad, Jerred, for his first day of elk hunting Saturday, Sept. 23, the elk was ...

Considering only 17 licenses were available this year, drawing a Minnesota elk tag isn't easy. The odds of siblings Sharlene Peterson and Gary Przekwas both drawing tags are even longer. Gary Przekwas ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. There exists in the hunting community a sort of “permit pressure,” where the idea of shooting a ...

A disabled veteran experienced a hunt he won't soon forget earlier this month when he bagged a trophy bull elk in northern Minnesota. Through the efforts of the Minnesota Safari Club International and ...

I’ve hunted elk on public ground across the West for 25 years. I’ve made incredible memories, learned a lot, and punched more tags than I deserve. But I’ve also seen a lot change over that quarter ...

BENEZETTE ― The lucky winners of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s elk hunt lottery are finding good numbers of elk this week. The agency received more than 104,000 applications this past summer for ...

A Pendleton, Ore., man has been indicted for unlawfully killing 13 elk and deer, one of them a trophy bull elk, in Umatilla County across the state line from the Tri-Cities. Walker Dean Erickson, 28, ...

Doug Willis, an angus farmer from Rices Landing, Greene County, was the lucky winner in 2025. His prize included the bull tag ...

BENEZETTE ― Winning the lottery for a Pennsylvania elk license means a one-of-a-kind dream hunt for many people. A Bedford County man, though, received his second hunt of a lifetime this week at age ...