Thank you all for your responses! It is true, Elk are Elk, and habits are habitat specific, but in my experience, some of the biggest differences between the species are:
*Roosevelt seem to run shorter circuits. I’ve heard stories of Rocky mountain elk covering up to twenty miles in a circuit, where as most Roosevelts, once they find suitable habitat, will stick to an area of just a few square miles until snow, or human pressure drives them out.
*Another major difference is that Roosevelts are alot less vocal (which makes sense, because even a bulls bugle will not travel very far in this jungle country). Even the cows seem to keep the herd chatter to a minimum.
*Roosevelts (at least where I’m hunting them) run in smaller herds as well, usually no more than 5-10 animals even in the winter. I don’t know what the average herd size is in the Rockies, but whenever I’ve been lucky enough to run into elk in my wanderings in Montana, I’ve always been amazed at the size of the massive herds scattered throughout the valleys and plains.
