Chuckel with his public-land elk (left); the rancher with the same skull. The helicopter seemed excessive, but after studying the Wyoming elk-hunting unit in detail, it appeared the only way to access ...

When it comes to elk in Wyoming and Idaho, it's a case of different places, same problem. Herds are booming, but hunters can’t get on private land to ...

Gilstrap’s punishment includes $10,000 in restitution to Game and Fish, $17,900 in fines to the State of Wyoming, 21 days in jail, and an 18-year suspension of his Game and Fish privileges, according ...

And so the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has resorted to measures like paying technicians to kill elk, among other unconventional methods. On a Friday in early March, Withroder and the elk-killing ...

IRON MOUNTAIN—The professional elk killer can always find elk. Whether he can kill them depends on where they stand. “That’s kind of my limiting factor: Whether or not they’re on the property where we ...