Settlers made a quick end to Ohio’s elk, though some think a sort-of comeback is desirable. The killing of the last free-ranging elk occurred in Ohio, probably inside Ashtabula County, after statehood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty years ago, spotting one of the goliath-size, deer-like creatures in the Eastern Kentucky mountains would have seemed almost ...

The National Park Service is searching for volunteers to assist with North Carolina elk. Here's everything to know about the ...

For roughly 150 years, the sound of bugling elk was missing from Tennessee’s mountains — a silence so long-lasting it felt permanent. The state’s native Eastern elk subspecies disappeared in the ...

For most Ohioans, elk are something you see on a hunting show filmed out West, or in an old painting, or in a story about the frontier that feels too distant to matter anymore, which is exactly why ...

Long ago, elk roamed the wooded-areas of Ohio. But after years of deforestation and over-hunting, the last native eastern elk was killed in Ashtabula in 1840. Now, more than a century later, one state ...

MISSOULA —A Missoula-based wildlife conservation group is spearheading an effort to reclaim Kentucky's coal mines for wildlife, a plan that could mean Eastern elk hunting within five years. "But what ...

Thirty years ago, spotting one of the goliath-size, deer-like creatures in the Eastern Kentucky mountains would have seemed almost mystical. Elk hadn't roamed those hills in more than a century. But ...

Long ago, elk roamed the wooded-areas of Ohio. But after years of deforestation and over-hunting, the last native eastern elk was killed in Ashtabula in 1840. Now, more than a century later, one state ...