The park will be doing an elk management program to reduce ... staff will need to follow and track the herd. “It’s harder in a winter with no snow, we can’t use tracks,” Jarding said.

Without deep snow, stalking elk becomes a much more arduous ... word arrives from another group who had tracked the same elk herd. They had found the carcasses of the two bulls.

The aircraft uses infrared technology that can detect heat coming from the animals against the snow and in the dark ... an estimation of how many elk are in the herd. The purpose of counting ...

Elk migrate to and from the refuge depending on the severity of the winter, mainly in terms of snow depth ... To get a closer look at the herd, you can take advantage of guided horse-drawn ...