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 ...

Wyoming and Idaho might be next-door neighbors, but the two states saw vastly different elk harvest numbers and success rates during the 2023 hunting season. Elk hunters in Wyoming set a new record ...

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 ...

In a recent Facebook post in the North Idaho Elk Hunting group, Tonya Kiele shared a photo of her son with his first-ever elk, an extremely rare and gnarly looking “cactus bull.” The antlers are short ...

In southwest Idaho, Unit 39 surrounding Boise will provide a solid opportunity to harvest a young buck, or a doe if you’re a youth hunter. The mild winters should also produce a good population of ...

If you’re a procrastinator and a hunter, and you’re planning on buying an elk or deer tag on the opening day of big game season, you might think twice about waiting that long to buy a tag. Sales of ...

BONE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho state game officers, already trying to exterminate one herd of escaped domesticated elk near Yellowstone National Park, have shot and killed a farm-raised trophy bull elk that ...

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 ...