Study focuses on plight of migratory elk
Though elk and other animals typically move from winter range to summer pastures to find better forage and to avoid predators, those benefits have mostly disappeared over the past decade for a group of migratory elk in Park County.
Elk and Wolf Study
Field work concluded this week on a three and a half year study on elk and wolves in Northwest Wyoming. Biologists are trying to find out why migrating elk there aren’t reproducing very well.
Bighorns on the Brink
Rebecca Huntington and Melinda Binks of Assignment Earth and This American Land produced a short video about our efforts to understand the influence of winter backcountry recreation on bighorn sheep in the Tetons.
Understanding elk pregnancy rates
Elk pregnancy rates are typically high – almost 90% on average in the Rocky Mountains – but we have observed low pregnancy for several years in a portion of the Clarks Fork elk herd that migrates annually into Yellowstone Park.
Teton Range sheep herd at risk
At 10,450 feet, just past the top of the tram on Rendezvous Mountain, biologist Aly Courtemanch leads a small expedition past the closed signs and over snow-covered talus the dozen or so yards to the peak.
Elk Study Includes Wolf Impact
CODY – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will embark next month on an ambitious four-year study of elk movement and migration that will include tracking wolves and their impact on elk.