If you’re a procrastinator and a hunter, and you’re planning on buying an elk or deer tag on the opening day of big game season, you might think twice about waiting that long to buy a tag. Sales of ...

Sales of big game hunting tags, especially elk tags in “capped” elk zones where the Idaho Department of Fish and Game limits the number of tags available for resident and non-resident hunters, are ...

BOISE, Idaho - Fair chase vs. private-property rights. That's how foes in the battle over Idaho's elk ranching industry framed arguments Tuesday, with hunting groups arguing that shooting elk behind ...

I’ve hunted elk on public ground across the West for 25 years. I’ve made incredible memories, learned a lot, and punched more tags than I deserve. But I’ve also seen a lot change over that quarter ...

Idaho’s early season antlerless elk hunts have started, and hunters are already heading outdoors to take advantage of what looks to be a great season. While these early hunts have some advantages, ...

Idaho's governor recently authorized a "depredation hunt" of the escaped elk, the first time such a hunt has been ordered, according to state wildlife officials. Authorities in neighboring Wyoming and ...

Deer and elk hunting in Idaho will be similar to last year, but hunters in eastern Idaho will likely see firsthand the effects of a brutal winter that hit mule deer hard. Elk herds remain stable to ...

Frank Koshere was alone, carrying his bow, hiking high in Idaho’s Bitterroot Mountains, when he stumbled into an elk-hunting spike camp. Koshere, who lived in Superior then, was looking for elk, too.

There were 129,155 deer hunters in Idaho last year, and they killed 48,800 deer, for an overall success rate of 38 percent for all general and controlled hunts. That’s down slightly from 2012, when 49 ...

Idaho Fish and Game wildlife biologist Iver Hull takes a chronic wasting disease sample from a deer harvested by a hunter. Roger Phillips Idaho Fish and Game Chronic wasting disease, a fatal ...