Seven years after the end of the Civil War, hunters killed a 500-pound elk near the Sierra Nevada’s Lake Tahoe, marking the near-final coda for a species on the edge of extinction. It’s time for the ...

All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a ...

For the first time in 19 years, I hunted elk during the general rifle season. Most of my elk hunting in recent years has been during the muzzleloader season, but this year I decided I would use my ...