Thirty years ago, spotting one of the goliath-size, deer-like creatures in the Eastern Kentucky mountains would have seemed almost mystical. Elk hadn't roamed those hills in more than a century. But ...

For roughly 150 years, the sound of bugling elk was missing from Tennessee’s mountains — a silence so long-lasting it felt permanent. The state’s native Eastern elk subspecies disappeared in the ...

MISSOULA —A Missoula-based wildlife conservation group is spearheading an effort to reclaim Kentucky's coal mines for wildlife, a plan that could mean Eastern elk hunting within five years. "But what ...