VIRGINIA (WJHL) — The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) announced applications for this year’s Elk Hunt Lottery have opened and will close on March 31.

Since the reintroduction in 2016, 74 West Virginia elk have died of one thing or another, 54 of those were confirmed to be a result of brain worm. The second leading cause of death was among the ...

Factors such as habitat loss and unregulated hunting caused elk to become virtually extinct within eastern North America. by the late 1800s. In Virginia, working with the coal and gas industries ...

When Beau Brooks, a popular hunting personality, posted a New Year’s Day photo of his dad holding up the rack of an absolutely gigantic bull elk, outdoor social media went wild. In the post, Beau ...

For every American whitetail hunter, Western elk hunting is aspirational, calling to them the way Cooperstown calls to a Little Leaguer. The impossibly heavy and branching antlers of bulls are as ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Applications for the Virginia Elk Hunt Lottery are open until the end of March, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. The lottery offers the ...