They may come down to lower grasslands during part of the day during spring and summer, but return to the higher elevations during the evening.

They stay higher up during warmer weather and migrate down to lower elevations in the winter.

In the summer, they migrate to the subalpine forests and alpine basins. Rocky Mountain Elk have winter ranges that are typically in open forests and floodplain marshes in the lower elevations. These elk have more impressive antlers than Roosevelt Elk. Rocky Mountain Elk are found in the Rocky Mountains and the adjacent ranges of Western North America. One of the best places to see them is at the DeanвЂ™s Creek Elk Viewing Area, which is 10 miles east of Reedsport, Oregon, on Highway 38. Roosevelt Elk are less likely to wander than nomadic Rocky Mountain Elk, but they remain invisible, and when pressured by hunters, Roosevelt Elk tend to hunker down in the dense Pacific forests they call home. The demeanor of Roosevelt Elk seems to be similar to white-tailed deer than Rocky Mountain Elk. However, bugling will often bring Roosevelt to you. In the congested, wet confines of the coastal range, hearing them bugle is less likely since the sound is quickly soaked up by the dense vegetation. There is a myth that Roosevelt Elk donвЂ™t bugle. They are the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America, having bigger bodies and smaller antlers than Rocky Mountain Elk.Д¬alling is how most hunters bag Roosevelt Elk. Roosevelt Elk, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, inhabit the rainforests of Oregon and Washington and were introduced to Kodiak, Alaska, in the Afognak and Raspberry Islands in 1928. In the United States, the subspecies we are most familiar with are Roosevelt Elk, Rocky Mountain Elk, Tule Elk of California, Manitoban Elk in the Midwestern states and Canadian prairie provinces, and the now-extinct Eastern and MerriamвЂ™s Elk.ДЇor this column, I will concentrate on Roosevelt and Rocky Mountain Elk because they are the elk that are prominent in the Rocky Mountain Northwest and the Pacific Northwest coastal states of Washington and Oregon. Norway even has elk that look more like moose to Americans. With all the subspecies, elk are pretty widely distributed in various places around the world.

Rocky mountain elk