National Elk Refuge

This past winter was the first in 37 years that elk and bison didn't require supplemental feeding on the refuge.

The average onset of feeding on the National Elk Refuge, where elk get alfalfa instead of hay, is the end of January.

Deputy Refuge Manager Cris Dippel said Wyoming will likely issue fewer bull tags next year.

This past weekend, buyers and sellers from around the region and around the country came together for a sale of antlers and horns like non other. Every year on the Saturday before Memorial weekend antler sellers gather around the square in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to vie for the best prices for their found treasures...

Biologists say forage conditions at the National Elk Refuge have slipped to the point that they have to begin supplemental feeding of elk and bison this winter.

While there are areas that are closed, opportunity to access public lands still exists including all state of Wyoming owned lands, which remain open and available to the public.

Supplemental winter feeding for elk and bison will soon be ending in northwestern Wyoming.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The number of bison moving from Grand Teton National Park to the National Elk Refuge is up this year. About 700 bison moved from the park to the refuge between July 28 and Aug. 3, about three-quarters of the Jackson Hole herd...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Supplemental feeding of elk and bison is starting on the National Elk Refuge near Jackson. Officers planned to begin by distributing small amounts of alfalfa pellets on Thursday. Eventually the elk will work themselves up to getting 8 pounds of food a day...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Abundant forage and fewer hunting permits resulted in a lower elk harvest on the National Elk Refuge and in Grand Teton National Park this fall. Refuge managers estimate that hunters killed about 100 elk this year, compared with 242 animals last year...