Tag: big game

A new series “My Wild Land,” launched by the Wyoming Migration Initiative at the University of Wyoming, documents ranchers across Wyoming who are helping conserve big game populations on working...

New maps documenting migration routes throughout the West can help inform managers and conservation groups about areas that are important for deer, elk and other migratory species in the region....

The Department of the Interior is making progress in protecting winter range and migration corridors for big game across the West since a 2018 Secretarial Order was signed, a new...

There’s no question that the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) taken by a Nez Perce Tribe member nearly three years ago in Idaho was a big one. But whether or not...

Looking across the Wyoming landscape, it might seem like mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) could pick just about anywhere to cross between the high country, where they spend the summer, to...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a secretarial order last week to direct bureaus within his department to work more closely with Western states on the management of habitat for big...

Following litigation by a coalition of wildlife and sportsmens groups, the U.S. Forest Service has dropped changes to a decades-long big game habitat management strategy in a national forest in...