The elk rut is here, but what does that mean? If you’re not very familiar with these animals (like me when I moved here), here is an "elk 101" with common terms and fun facts for you to read before ...

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Hearing an elk bugle in the wild can sound otherworldly: high pitched, but also guttural, sound, sometimes even seeming to have a metallic resonance. These ...

Few calls of the wild evoke as much excitement and intrigue as the bugle of a rutting bull elk … except maybe for multiple bugles from multiple bulls as they challenge each other while persuading cows ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Using a plastic reed and a camouflage-covered tube, Shaun Boese arched his shoulders, bent his ...

Hunting season has begun in Oregon, including for Roosevelt elk. But Lillian and Rock Cochran, volunteer hosts at Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area, claim observing the animals is just as gratifying as ...

The big bull raged again, and my fingers tightened on the stock of my rifle. I glanced around at Vernon Scott, seated a few feet away. He nodded his head toward the tangle of oak brush in front of us, ...

The sound of hundreds of elk bugling at Rocky Mountain National Park is nothing compared to the moans and groans that would be coming from northern Colorado’s tourism industry if the park were closed.

A bull elk raises his massive head to the evening sky and lets out a high-pitched bugle. The last notes trail off, as if from an unearthly flute, sounding so musical that it makes me shiver. Soon a ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay witness a wild bull elk bugling for the first time.

Few calls of the wild evoke as much excitement and intrigue as the bugle of a rutting bull elk…except maybe for multiple bugles from multiple bulls as they challenge each other while persuading cows ...