Shortly after wolves were introduced to central Idaho in the mid-1990s, Idaho’s elk population peaked at 125,000. Today, the state’s elk population is stable at about 107,000 animals ...

WILDLIFE – Idaho is feeding about 7 percent of the state’s elk and nearly 2 percent of its deer population to keep the animals off agricultural crops as they try to survive a tough winter of ...

Oregonians may be faced with some of the same questions Idaho has grappled with: How many elk, deer or wolves does the state want to support? Much depends on how fast Oregon's wolf population ...

Backers said it would reduce the wolf population and attacks on livestock while also boosting deer and elk herds. Idaho wildlife officials also last year announced the state would make available $ ...

SPOKANE – Idaho’s ... populations in some elk zones. Hunters killed 198 wolves in the 2013-14 season and trappers took another 104. “We’ve been reducing the wolf population annually ...

Idaho officials say the area’s elk population in what’s called the Lolo zone has plummeted in the last 25 years from about 16,000 to about 2,000, and that wolves are to blame along with black ...

which distributed it to food banks across Southern Idaho. While Thompson said he doesn't want to minimize the 206 taken elk, the number doesn't hurt the overall population. In fact, it helps with ...

JEROME, Idaho • Hunters overwhelmingly back more aggressive wolf population control measures, according to comments made on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission’s draft elk management plan.

Elk numbers While there isn't a huge elk population in the Bannock Zone, Region 5 Idaho Fish and Game biologists ... so check a topographical map for details to reach public grounds.