This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). It has a lighter color and a broader neck and shoulders than the Roosevelt Elk and can grow larger antlers, which is also reflected in the much higher trophy rating requirements. The total wild population is about one million individuals. The Rocky Mountain Elk is located in the Silver Ridge Peaks reserve in the Rocky Mountains. The lack of snow in Yellowstone has also given the elk an advantage over the wolves in their predator prey relationship because wolves rely on deep snow to hunt elk in winter ranges of Yellowstone. elaphus manitobensis) are found primarily in the provincial and national parks of Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan however they were once found along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. For example, in Yellowstone the climate warming has kept the snow at a lower level than in the past and has given the elk the ability to populate higher ranges than before. The Rocky Mountain elk is the second largest elk subspecies which Idaho has the third largest population behind Montana and Colorado. One of the best places to see them is at. 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. Climate changes such as warming have in some cases even increased the seasonal range of elk in the winter. In 1984, four hunters from Troy, Montana, founded the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to guarantee a wild future for North Americas grandest game animal. The demeanor of Roosevelt Elk seems to be similar to white-tailed deer than Rocky Mountain Elk.
Climate change/warming can keep elk in their higher elevation habitats for longer into the winter than normal. They may even come down the mountain and leave the forest into some grassland for part of the day but head back into the timber in the evening. Elk have a diverse habitat range that they can reside in but are most often found in forest and forest edge habitat and in mountain regions they often stay in higher elevations during warmer months and migrate down lower in the winter. In the summer it migrates to the subalpine forests and alpine basins. The winter ranges are most common in open forests and floodplain marshes in the lower elevations. The Rocky Mountain elk is a subspecies of elk found in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ranges of Western North America.