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LANCASTER, Minn. – When Lacey Lupien got a letter in early July from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, she thought it was junk mail at first glance. “I actually was going to throw it away ...

KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. — They’d spotted the big bull elk the previous weekend, but when Ryker Copp went afield with his dad, Jerred, for his first day of elk hunting Saturday, Sept. 23, the elk was ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. There exists in the hunting community a sort of “permit pressure,” where the idea of shooting a ...

John Keller started hunting in 1967 but had never shot a big bull elk. The 84-year-old Clarkston, Washington, man finally got the chance this fall when he drew a quality elk tag in the Couse Game ...

I’ve hunted elk on public ground across the West for 25 years. I’ve made incredible memories, learned a lot, and punched more tags than I deserve. But I’ve also seen a lot change over that quarter ...

Roger Petrie has big goals when it comes to hunting trips. The former owner of Midwest Refuse Service has always had a passion for hunting. It started with pheasants, and in recent years, he has ...

A Pendleton, Ore., man has been indicted for unlawfully killing 13 elk and deer, one of them a trophy bull elk, in Umatilla County across the state line from the Tri-Cities. Walker Dean Erickson, 28, ...

The pending world-record elk, shot in Utah in September, is raising eyebrows for its huge size as well as concerns for the direction of trophy hunting. Known as the “Spider Bull,” the elk taken in ...

BENEZETTE ― The lucky winners of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s elk hunt lottery are finding good numbers of elk this week. The agency received more than 104,000 applications this past summer for ...