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 ...

All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a ...

EVERGREEN, Colo. (KDVR) — As fall rolls in and the leaves start to change, there is a familiar sound heard roaring through the Colorado mountains and foothills: the bugling and chirping of elk. A bull ...

A bull elk chases after his herd during the elk rut in Estes Park on Sept. 10. Locals and tourists alike have begun to flock to the eastern side of Rocky Mountain National Park and areas surrounding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...