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Nov. 24—More than 400 Washington hunters have submitted elk or deer samples to be tested for a deadly disease this year. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has gathered 423 samples ...
While harvest numbers are lower for white-tailed and mule deer in Northwest Montana, elk are on par with 2022. More than 3,100 hunters have appeared at regional game check stations over the last ...
Rocky Mountain elk were reintroduced into the region during the 1930s, [5] as well as a natural recolonization event from the nearby cascade mountains during the difficult 1978 winter. The dry, desert region is home to forty-two mammal species. Mice are the most abundant and include the deer mouse, western harvest mouse, northern grasshopper mouse.
The Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), also known commonly as the Olympic elk and Roosevelt's wapiti, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk (Cervus canadensis) in North America by body mass. [2] Mature bulls weigh from 700 to 1,200 lb (320 to 540 kg). with very rare large bulls weighing more. [3]
A cow/calf winter herd is a herd that consists only of female elk and their young. In a normal winter, defined as one where there is a decent amount of snow fall, one study found that when the groups of cows and calves were safe from predation by wolves, about 75.6-83.0% of their diet was made up of graze whereas when wolves were present this number dropped to 61.6-69.4%. [3]
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The Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is located six miles (10 km) south of Cheney, Washington, on the eastern edge of the Columbia Basin in Spokane County in northeastern Washington. Turnbull NWR encompasses more than 23,000 acres (9,300 ha) of the Channeled Scablands.
Evacuations urged as wildfire in Washington state grows to 20,000 acres ... assist with the Gray Fire burning near Highway 195 and Thorpe Rd and the Oregon Road Fire in the rural community of Elk ...