The Mount St. Helens elk herd has the highest prevalence of Treponema-Associated Hoof Disease of any other herd in the west. Here, technicians take data from a captured elk in the herd. Scientists ...

Reports of elk with broken, deformed or missing hooves are increasing in the Western states this spring, includingCalifornia’s firstcase of “elk hoof disease,” according to the Associated Press.

SACRAMENTO – California’s first cases of elk hoof disease have been discovered in two animals in a herd of Roosevelt elk that live in Del Norte County, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

At least one elk in Washington’s Blue Mountains is confirmed to have a crippling and deforming condition known as elk hoof disease, state wildlife officials announced this week. The disease — ...

Researchers at Washington State University warn that a solution to Southwest Washington’s hoof disease problem might not arrive any time soon. Despite the fact that Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill which ...

Wildlife biologists are on the lookout for a disease that afflict the hooves of elk and severely inhibits the animals’ ability to move around. In the wild, of course, that also inhibits their ability ...

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Washington State University to help build an elk hoof disease research facility on the campus in Pullman, Wash., the group announced ...

Larry Gitch spent three August weekends in the Boistfort area in Lewis County scouting elk. “I would say in 60 percent or better of the animals, I would see hoof rot,” said Gitch, a Vancouver resident ...

For the first time, state wildlife managers have found elk on the east side of the Cascade Range infected with a crippling hoof disease that has spread to 11 counties in western Washington over the ...

Oct. 18—A disease that has mangled the hooves of elk in western Washington and other parts of the country is affecting more than just the animals' feet, according to a new study from Washington State ...

SUTHERLIN, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said veterinarians confirmed the presence of elk hoof disease in Douglas County for the first time. ODFW officials said a hunter killed a ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s first cases of elk hoof disease have been discovered in two animals in a herd of Roosevelt elk that live in Del Norte County, the state Department ...