New detection at the Horse Creek Feedground, which has already struggled with disease, suggests that the new epidemic is expanding geographically and marching toward a large population of wapiti on ...

Management of the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation triggered legal action from Forest and Bird last year, which was later dropped as the parties worked to resolve concerns around herd management.

Every year, they also charge Yellowstone tourists who are behaving badly. Some get too close, while others insist on taking selfies, generally forgetting that bison are 1,000- to ...

Onslaught of infections suggests that feeding operations are exacerbating the spread of a deadly prion disease that’s making ...

Theodore Roosevelt National Park started it’s life many years ago as Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. Memorial parks are an ...

Management of the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation triggered legal action from Forest and Bird last year, which was later dropped as the parties work to resolve concerns around the herd management.

an expansive meadowed basin on the Yellowstone Plateau that’s both a linchpin of the Wapiti Lake Pack’s territory and part of the core range of Yellowstone’s central bison herd. (The Hayden ...

Large, dominant individuals like the record-breaking elk are often key to herd dynamics, serving as strong genetic contributors to the population. Wapiti in Beautiful autumn landscape scene in ...

Wapiti in Beautiful autumn landscape scene in mountain in background ... Elk are constantly alert, relying on their acute senses and the collective vigilance of the herd to detect danger. When ...

They are also referred to as wapiti. It belongs to the Cervidae family ... It’s possible that an increasing proportion of the herd is being forced to spend the winter outside of Yellowstone National ...