Back on Kimball Mountain, with trigger pulled, the elk herd disperses, except for my cow.
After nearly a half-hour, we finally spot the elk feeding on a nearby ridge.
Among the cottages, the three-bedroom Columbine has spectacular panoramas over the Elk River valley.
The wolf, the elk, the moose and bear were fighting over too little land.
Last night they did a fairly successful burnout along the Elk Creek Main Boulder Road Drainage.
To Regan and Katz, there is no difference between these birds and the elk.
Then I accompanied Todd to Grand Junction, where we dropped the elk off at the meat processor.
In a statement, the company said sales of the elk lasagne were suspended last month after Belgian authorities detected pork in them.
On the anti-wolf side, the most moving testimony came from outfitters who had no business that year because the wolf drove away the elk and moose.
Adding to the incongruence, the shipment ban applies to beef, chicken, lamb, pork and goat, but not to some other meats, including alligator, quail, venison, bison, elk and rabbit--so the elk bratwurst Rick Reams has sold at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium could be shipped across state lines.
Back when the U.S. government ran the giant Elk Hills oil fields in California as a national petroleum reserve, the funding for individual oil wells had to be approved by Congress.
Hunting elk was deemed essential at Grand Teton National Park, allowing federal workers to stay on the job there and at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyoming.
The scenery is spectacular, full of jagged 10, 000-foot peaks, pristine glacial lakes and lily-white snowfields, punctuated by the odd elk or moose.
The hotel has its own wildlife biologist and photographer, Tenley Thompson, who created the programme and trained a team of naturalists to take small groups (with at least one guide for every five hotel guests) on customised wildlife safari tours through Bridger Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge.
The foghorn on the Mendocino headlands moaned through the night like a lovelorn elk, the only clue to what lay outside my windows at the Albion River Inn.
They enabled man to travel during the winter and hunt reindeer and elk across the frozen tundra.
He plans to keep 95% of Silver Bow undeveloped and is negotiating to donate conservation easements to groups such as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a pro-hunting group, and the Montana Land Reliance, a land trust.
However, much of the US Highway 36, the main road between Boulder and Estes Park, was washed away, and with it went much of the tourism the town depends during its elk-showcasing fall months, when hundreds of elk descend from the mountains and make their mating calls near prime viewing areas (one of which is the Estes Park golf course).
Government officials determined the annual hunt must continue, since it helps control the size of elk herds.
Gray wolves hunt the large animals like elk that were eating so many plants that some of the fauna was in danger of disappearing.
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To be fair, the groups of six tents do open up directly to nature, with a view of the Blackfoot river, the pine forest or the banks of Elk Creek.
Tucked between the Castle and Little Belt mountain ranges, the ranch has 9, 000 deeded acres, five reservoirs, 3 miles of the trout-rich North Fork of the Musselshell River, and antelope, deer and elk that roam the mix of bald hills and stands of Douglas fir and ponderosa pines.
The third group suffered the same indignity but, in addition, had elk saliva painted on to the torn surfaces.
Their life is almost entirely self-sufficient: They keep livestock, hunt elk and the children are schooled at home.
At 3:30 a.m. they breakfast hearty, then head out to listen for the bugling of bull elk competing for mates.
At 3:30 a.m. they breakfast heartily, then head out to listen for the bugling of bull elk competing for mates.
Last week, hostility against the liquor stores on the edge of the reservation (booze is banned within it) erupted after the bodies of Ronald Hard Heart and Wilson Black Elk were found decomposing in a ditch near the stores.
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