The fact that elk ranching is an agricultural endeavor brings up another point that should concern all hunters. The SPCA has managed to get all kinds of rules enacted regulating how farm animals are killed. I've wondered why they haven't gone after high fence operations claiming that slaughter methods should be the same as those used in slaughter houses. If they could succeed in doing that, they'd be much farther along in getting real hunting stopped for the same reason.

While elk farming is agriculture, it's better for all of us if we keep calling it hunting, high fence or not. The more leverage we have against animal rights groups, the better.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.