California hunter Joe Gonsalves took this 335-inch bull elk while hunting in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. Lynn Burkhead. Apr 5, 2004, 05:10 PM ET. Email; Print; ...

Right now, our public lands—where 72 percent of us hunt in the West and where almost all of the best D.I.Y. elk hunting on this planet takes place—are in the crosshairs of some misguided and ...

Days before, that elk had been grazing in the neighboring Gila National Forest. “My grandpa would tell me stories about them packing into the Gila. They’d hunt for deer, they’d hunt for elk ...

Since the first 25 head of Rocky Mountain elk were introduced into the Gila National Forest in 1936, the population has expanded, at rates reportedly accelerating in recent decades.

RESERVE, N.M. (KRQE) – A fire has burned about 229 acres on East Elk Mountain in the Gila National Forest which is located 30 miles east of Reserve in Catron County. The Forest Service reports… ...