big game

Across the state, temps have mostly held close to record highs this fall, which isn’t great if you’re hunting big game. Wyoming hunters might be hiking farther or altering their strategy this year, as well as having to consider keeping meat fresh after harvest.

It’s about 5:45 a.m. on May 1 at a closed gate leading to an elk feedground in Sublette County. There's 15 minutes until the shed antler hunting season officially opens, as it’s illegal to pick up antlers in much of southern and western Wyoming for the first four months of the year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been working with private landowners in Wyoming to help preserve migration corridors for big game. Now those efforts are expanding to Idaho and Montana.

Some of the state’s big game hunting seasons kick-off in September, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) is offering a forecast.

Drought and the severity of winter conditions are factors as to whether there will be more or less wildlife available for hunters during hunting season. Overall, the outlook is favorable, though some species of wildlife are expected to more plentiful for hunters than others. The season officially began in mid-August.

Elk and deer antler hunting season opened last Sunday, May 1, in parts of Wyoming, and it looked different this year, as the past two winters have been mild.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is slowly on the rise across the state, according to new data from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.The agency tested nearly 7,000 samples of which 13 percent were positive for CWD. The state has seen a 10 percent increase over the last decade, with cases most prevalent in the southeast corner of the state and the Bighorn Basin.

Researchers from the University of Wyoming are part of a worldwide effort to map big game migration.The team involves nearly 100 collaborators across the…

Over the weekend, people in Wyoming took part in a worldwide rally against trophy hunting for the first time.Worldwide Rally Against Trophy Hunting…

Cecil the lion was a favorite and well-known animal in the Zimbabwe Hwange National Park. Earlier this month he was killed by an American hunter and once…