The trick to finding fallen antlers is to never look up. “You’re trying to just find something that looks out of the ordinary,” said Rob Tanner while he makes his way through bitterbrush and around ...

BOISE, Idaho – Elk breeders, who watched high profits from the velvet antler trade crash amid concerns about illness in the herds, are cautiously optimistic that a new federal plan to electronically ...

Antlers are a big reason why many hunt for deer and elk. I’m not saying it’s right, but it is the truth. The desire for big bucks continues to increase as the number of big bucks also increases on the ...

What is it about shed antlers that annually turns grownups into raving lunatics? Apparently, there is a lure, a special power that emanates from shed antlers: those racks of bone that each spring and ...

Nathan Kiele had never seen anything like it. He was elk hunting in Idaho’s Unit 12 north of the Lochsa River when he encountered the bull on an old logging road. “I saw that weird formation he had ...

HORSETHIEF CANYON, WYOMING — A couple of hours after the mid-March sun has slipped behind the Snake River Range in western Wyoming, warden Kyle Lash of the state’s game and fish department is ...

A growing number people head out to wild places in search of the antlers that elk and deer shed. Some of those collectors harass these animals to death by chasing them down with ATVs. Video by ...