After swimming across chilly waters to Whidbey Island in Washington State, the solitary elk charmed residents for more than a ...

It’s hard not to return the bugle of a bull in the wild. But the author is convinced tactics he uses with calling help seal ...

With more than a century of great elk cartridges to choose from, there's room for both classics and modern rounds. These are our picks for the best elk hunting cartridges.

Side-by-sides and elk hunting on public land just don’t mix. It’s time we take a step back and evaluate the damage they’re ...

Charlie the cat regularly watches wild animals walk through his Estes Park, Colorado backyard, but seems to enjoy the elk most of all Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Around 400,000 years ago, the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) roamed Pleistocene Europe and Asia. The species went extinct around 8,000 years ago. The name is something of a misnomer, since it was ...

Elk have this reputation for being extra-tough critters. The old way of thinking is that an elk hunter should carry the biggest, hardest-hitting rifle he can handle, because even a well-hit bull can ...

Nicholas Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala Sioux, came into the world in Wyoming before it was Wyoming, and died in the village of Manderson, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, ...

I was sitting beside Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park last weekend, peacefully eating my lunch, when I noticed a commotion. Crowds of visitors had congregated on the eastern shore of the ...

The Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus, ranged across northern Eurasia from Siberia to Ireland and shed its giant antlers every year. It is on display in the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time ...