Currently, Montana offers outfitters 5,500 guaranteed deer-elk combination licenses a year, and another 2,300 guaranteed deer licenses for any hunting clients they’ve contracted with.

HUNTING — New rules have been approved to help guide elk hunts before and after Montana’s general archery and rifle seasons. The Billings Gazette reports the Fish and Wildlife Commission ...

Montana approves shoulder season elk huntsSports Outdoors Montana approves shoulder season elk hunts Mon., Feb. 15, 2016 Montana has introduced “shoulder” seasons for elk hunting, designed to ...

One such political action in Montana in 2003 required wildlife managers to meet elk population goals in each hunting district. They tried a variety of tactics, including special hunts, but the ...

August may seem early for a hunter to fill a freezer with elk meat, but several landowners in southwestern Montana’s Region 3 have requested damage hunts to reduce or disperse elk attracted to ...

So, with hundreds of elk hunting districts in Montana, bull and cow seasons, outfitter sponsored licenses, several types of hunting weapons choices (rifle, archery equipment or muzzle loader) and ...

MISSOULA - In what is likely an unprecedented step in the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's 25-year history, the organization will lend its legal weight to the wolf hunt question.

The best part of Northwest Montana’s archery hunting season for elk will come in two weeks when bull elk will lose much of their normal caution and instinct for survival during the peak of the ...

Elk herds that gather on private lands would be targeted under a new Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks proposal to create elk shoulder seasons. The rifle hunts could come before or after the ...

The proposal is a boon for private landowners and commercial outfitters at the direct expense of Montana elk hunters.

Montana's outfitting industry generated more than $7 million in 2003, and there are more than 600 licensed outfitters across the state.

More than 160,000 elk populate Montana. A proposal calls for 'shoulder seasons' to cull the herd.