Adventures from the Archives - Fred Mercer’s Montana Elk
Montana 1958 — With a .270 Winchester Model 70, this dairy farm worker cut a big set of elk tracks in October. He followed that bull for at least a dozen miles using his wits and old-school hunting wisdom. At the end of the trail was the second-largest elk in the world.
Conservation and Management of Mule and Black-tailed Deer
By Emily Latch – Purdue University and now at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Gene Rhodes – Purdue University
Gene Rhodes – Purdue University
Elk Reproduction Improved With Mature Bulls
By David Hewitt - Boone and Crockett Club Professional Member
Trophy animals represent many things. For
Pronghorn Evolution and Management
By David Hewitt, Boone and Crockett Club Professional Member
It is an axiom that management for trophy deer, sheep, and goats requires management for older males because antler and horn size increase with age.
Elk Have Ecosystem Level Effects
Kelley M. Stewart, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Reno
Franz Vogt's Feeding Experiments Generating Record Antlers
By Valerius Geist, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, The University of Calgary; Boone and Crockett Club Professional Member
Complex Interactions Spell Trouble for Mountain Caribou
David Hewitt, Boone and Crockett Club Professional Member
In Search of Receptive Does - What Buck Movements Reveal
By Stephen Webb (Biostatistics Specialist, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation) and
2008 North American Wildlife Policy Conference - Hunting and Shooting Access
Working Draft prepared by the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy
In almost all surveys conducted about hunting participation in the United States, the lack of access to hunting and shooting areas for firearms and bows is one of the top constraints to participation.