The 2025 Wyoming hunting season could be the best of the past few years. It’s not coming on the heels of a disaster, as other recent hunting seasons have.

The 2023 hunting season opened under the shadow of the massive big-game die-offs during the 2022-2023 winter. And in 2024, much of the state was reeling from gigantic wildfires that summer and fall.

For example, the huge Elk Fire near Dayton was appropriately named, as it scorched some of the state’s best elk hunting grounds.

The effects of the 2022-2023 winterkill are still lingering, mule deer and pronghorn (antelope) herds are still in recovery mode in parts of central and western Wyoming.

When it comes to elk, the story remains the same as it has for years. The herds are huge, in some areas far exceeding the Wyoming Game an

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