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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All posts tagged: elk
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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Are Elk Native to Texas–Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Natural Occurence of Elk in Texas
This paper began as an effort to persuade Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to cease its efforts to eradicate elk on the state lands which it manages in far-West Texas. Our assumption was that […]
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Hunting Is Conservation – Hunting is Sustainable, Helps Species Thrive
The anti-hunter claim that hunting is not a sustainable model and the populations of hunted species will decline and no longer flourish is simply untrue.
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Baby Moose at Pitchstone Waters
Our ATV trails attract wildlife like this little moose calf.
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Disease Threatening Deer Population Has Spread to 26 States
According to this article, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first “discovered” in mule deer at a wildlife research facility in Colorado in 1967. Here is, as Paul Harvey used to say, “The rest of the story.” […]
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