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 ...

The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ efforts to restore elk in Virginia received a major boost just over a week before Christmas when the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation announced it is pledging ...

Now a story about a wild animal making a comeback in Appalachia - not B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Roxy Todd of member station Radio IQ takes us to the top of a former strip mine in ...

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation camped near the Virginia boarder the past weekend to celebrate the success of elk being reintroduced to their historic range in the Southeast -- and to do some ...

Officials with Breaks Interstate Park signed an agreement Monday to immediately acquire and begin operations at Southern Gap ...

More than 150 years after Virginia's last native elk was killed, game officials may try to populate the state's southwest corner with its bigger, buff-colored cousin -- the Rocky Mountain elk. They ...