Hunting and Fishing Minister James Meager will consider formally designating Fiordland National Park’s wapiti herd as a “herd of special interest”. However Forest and Bird is appalled. The ...

Hunting and Fishing Minister James Meager will consider formally designating wapiti deer as a Herd of Special Interest (HOSI) in Fiordland National Park, which could cover more than 190,000 ...

Herd restoration started in 1913 when 50 Rocky Mountain elk from Yellowstone and 22 from a private preserve in Monroe County were released in Clearfield, Clinton, Centre and Monroe counties.

BENZETTE, Pa. — Native Seneca tribes called them "wapiti," referring to their white rumps. ... Pennsylvania's free-ranging herd is the easternmost wild elk population in the United States.

By Kate Green of RNZ. Forest & Bird has criticised moves by the government to protect a herd of wapiti deer - or elk - in Fiordland National Park, accusing it of “changing the law to let a North ...

A herd of 150 animals was spotted on a foggy morning in the foothills 20 miles from Denver. ... For what it’s worth, wapiti is the preferred name for elk in the rest of the world, ...

So, when Yann Locatelli contacted Reby to let him know that one of the wapiti males in the herd at France's Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle reserve had died, ...

A long time ago, right where I am standing in what is now southwestern West Virginia, Logan County, there were herds of wapiti (wap-i-ti). We are told that is what ...