National Elk Refuge

Comments are due to the refuge by Oct. 30.

Bidders paid an average of almost $17 per pound for antlers this year.

Animals on the refuge seemed to weather the historically snowy and colder-than-usual midwinter just fine.

The animals would then be expected to forage for food during all but perhaps the most severe winters.

Game and Fish biologist Aly Courtemanch says elk were scattered around Jackson Hole.

Glaspell said coming up with a plan is complicated, in part because the herd ranges onto land beyond the refuge.

The average onset of feeding on the National Elk Refuge, where elk get alfalfa instead of hay, is the end of January.

This past weekend, buyers and sellers from around the region and around the country came together for a sale of antlers and horns like non other. Every year on the Saturday before Memorial weekend antler sellers gather around the square in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to vie for the best prices for their found treasures...