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. A news release from the department ...

In Southwestern Virginia, more specifically Buchanan, Dickenson, and Wise counties, there lives an animal that towers over most wildlife in the state in both grandeur and stature. Starting in ...

Ten years after the successful restoration of elk to their historic Virginia range, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is accepting applications for its first elk hunting season through ...

BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Did you know there is a herd of more than 250 elk roaming the Appalachian Mountain range in Southwest Virginia? You can watch them live throughout the fall on the ...

Once upon a time, elk called West Virginia and the eastern United States their home. In nearby Kentucky, though, a healthy elk population is thriving today after being reintroduced in the 1990's. Are ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Justin Hettick had been itching to give his elk hair flies a try. They weren’t just any elk hair rigs, these flies were hand tied using hair off the first elk captured under the ...

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is overseeing the restoration project to establish a sustainable elk herd in Southwest Virginia. The agency released 16 elk on reclaimed mining ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More than 150 years after Virginia’s last native elk was killed, game officials might try to populate the state’s southwest corner with its bigger, buff-colored cousin — the Rocky ...

GRUNDY, Va. – The elk viewing tour schedule for 2025 in Buchanan County has been released jointly by the Breaks Interstate Park and Southern Gap Outdoor Adventure, who coordinate the tours with the ...

The opportunity of a lifetime – a chance to hunt elk in Southwest Virginia. Applications opened on Feb. 1 for the 2023 Elk Hunt Lottery, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia has launched a live "elk cam." The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said the elk cam will run annually from mid-August through November. Elk rut peaks between late ...