“Interdependance (“mutualism”) is common in nature. Even species that are thought to be “competitive” usually turn out to be complimentary when their relationship is fully understood.
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Winter Feeding Grounds for Elk in The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Can Spread, or Be Used to Control, Disease
As discussed in this paper, winter feed grounds pose heath dangers to elk because of increased disease transmission. But they also could offer the best tool to treat brucellosis and other diseases, IF we were […]
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On the Elk Trail: Episode 4 – “Spike”
Quoting the authors of this video, It’s migration season in Greater Yellowstone, and our trail cameras capture young male elk – collectively nicknamed “Spike” – sparring and goofing off. These competitive behaviors prepare the spikes […]
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On the Elk Trail: Episode 2 – Elk Migration
In 2018, a biologist and a filmmaker used camera traps to film the entire fall migration of an elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of western Wyoming. During the project’s first week a snowstorm […]
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On the Elk Trail: Episode 1 – Camera Trapping
In 2018 a biologist and a filmmaker used camera traps to film the entire fall migration of an elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of western Wyoming.
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The Marvelous Migrations of Greater Yellowstone
Pitchstone Waters Ranch is five miles southwest of the southwest corner of Yellowstone Park, surrounded on three sides by national forest. Our highest priority is addressing the issues set forth in the excellent report below. […]
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Hunting a Bull Elk in Colorado
Harvesting an old, broken warrior of a bull.
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Managing for Better Habitat Works. Culling Doesn’t.
For decades now, state agencies, universities and wildlife managers have urged culling of so-called “inferior” bucks from herds in order to improve genetics and produce bigger trophies. Since the early 1970s, belief in the effectiveness […]
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Restoring Elk Country-Little Snowy Mountains Montana
Due to fire suppression and a lack of active management, forests can become unnaturally dense and overgrown…and that’s bad news for elk and other wildlife in need of quality forage and habitat. With that in mind, […]
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Elk and Calves
A mother elk, her yearling calf and this year’s twins, captured in one of our newly-opened ATV trails at Pitchstone Waters.
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