Around 3,500 moose now wander Colorado. The hungry herbivores are also threatening a once-wetland-rich valley in Rocky ...
Before she was big enough to carry a gun, Melissa Johnson would follow her father through the grasslands surrounding Trinchera, the rural southeast Colorado community where her family has hunted for ...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife says that the hunter who killed a cow moose and her yearling close to the Salt Lick Trail near Silverthorne had been hunting in a legal area. The hunter self-reported ...
Moose are on the loose in the southern Rockies. In July 2025, a young wandering bull was captured roaming a city park in Greeley, Colorado. A spate of similar urban sightings alongside some aggressive ...
Brad Manard feels relief each time he takes a tour group into Rocky Mountain National Park and his first stop, Sheep Lakes in Horseshoe Park, delivers a moose. He's more confident these days that if ...
Once I was jogging along an urban trail in Manitou Springs when I stopped dead in my tracks. It was something ahead by the city pool. Not a deer, not an elk. Longer legs. Longer snout. Much bigger. It ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In the decades that followed, the moose expanded their range and numbers. Today, ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) William Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder; John Wendt, Oklahoma State University, ...