Roosevelt Elk

[wmfamily]

As others have mentioned the whitetails are the problem in most areas. Missouri is trying to get the elk population going here again. They have just started permitted hunting over the past few years with a lottery drawing for tags (same with black bear). It will be many years before they become a big PITA like the whitetails.

I wonder if electrified chicken wire rigged up at elk eating height would dissuade them?

 

[Eagle1]

Had my first wild elk on the property this spring. Conservation did not think I came from Peck ranch, but still cool to see. Young female, I was close enough to tell on the third sighting

 

[wmfamily]

Had my first wild elk on the property this spring. Conservation did not think I came from Peck ranch, but still cool to see. Young female, I was close enough to tell on the third sighting

If it didn't come from Peck where would it come from? That's closer than the other options.

 

[Eagle1]

We do have a couple of High Fence "hunting" operations around, so who knows.
I do know we have had some escapees, Red Stag Doe, an antelope, etc.
Still cool to have it feeding here, would love wake up one morning and hear and Elk bugling.

 

[wmfamily]

We do have a couple of High Fence "hunting" operations around, so who knows.
I do know we have had some escapees, Red Stag Doe, an antelope, etc.
Still cool to have it feeding here, would love wake up one morning and hear and Elk bugling.

Ok, that makes sense. I didn't think about the hunting ranches.

 

[goeduck]

My experience has been a 338 win mag, loaded with 225 gr Nosler partitions is pure elk poison.

This came from decades of intensive research when I still resided in AZ.

I don't live on either of the two properties that have the elk problem, that is part of the dilemma. My brother saw them this time going after the trees but was not prepared. They come through, do their damage and move on. Black bear are similar, only occasionally there.

 

[oosik]

I think you are right goeduck. I seldom see elk because I live here on the 80 and the elk would know to avoid my place. Plenty of other areas without human presence. Deer and all the other smaller creatures don't seem to mind my presence that much.

I've even had moose wander over from Turnbull. Very rare - but it does happen. More often - I've seen moose out trying to make a safe crossing of the county road.

 

[goeduck]

I hope we never have moose; elk are big enough. Same for Grizzlies, black bears are easy to deal with. The feds are talking about introducing Grizzlies into the North Cascades. That is just a hop skip and jump from the Olympic Mountains.

 

[rgr33]

I had to break down and put up an 8 foot fence around my 1/2 acre orchard. The deer treated it like a buffet dinner opportunity. While I slept at night, they happily ate all they could.

Fencing it was pretty expensive considering the amount of fruit we get each year, but it got so bad the deer wouldn’t even run away when I chased them. They were unafraid and knew I wasn’t really a danger to them, as everybody else near me feeds them deer chow every day.

Now they are eating my roses and hydrangeas in the yard

 

[jyoutz]

I think you are right goeduck. I seldom see elk because I live here on the 80 and the elk would know to avoid my place. Plenty of other areas without human presence. Deer and all the other smaller creatures don't seem to mind my presence that much.

I've even had moose wander over from Turnbull. Very rare - but it does happen. More often - I've seen moose out trying to make a safe crossing of the county road.

Human presence doesn’t really deter elk once they become accustomed. I took this photo this past summer in Payson, Arizona.