Wildlife officials and climbers rescue a bull elk after the animal became entangled in a rope at an ice climbing area in Lake City, southwestern Colorado, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officer Lucas Martin got a call after ice climbers in Lake City noticed the elk entangled in the rope near an ice wall. Martin was joined by other CPW officers to help ...

Colorado elk are renowned for their deafening bugle and pointy antlers—but alas, not for their belaying skills. On January 3, Ben Hake, the head of recreation in Lake City, Colorado received a ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said a group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed elk Friday morning, and a CPW biologist darted the ungulate with a tranquilizer and ...

LAKE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials and several climbers rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in… ...

Female elk can reach up to 5 feet tall and eight feet long, weighing 400–600 pounds, while bulls can weigh up to 900 pounds. Colorado has the largest elk population in the world, at around 280,000.

A hunter encountered a cow elk with twisted, deformed hooves in Colorado — and couldn’t quite figure out what might be causing it. So he shared photos of its overgrown hooves in a Colorado ...