Yea one of those good ideas the game and fish had gone bad. Turn a bunch of elk loose on a ranch and then treat them like transplanted pheasants. Worked good till the ranch changed hands. Then those transplanted elk didn't get shot off due to new owners charging for hunting etc.
Meantime they spread out and the Game and Fish really screwed up and forgot to manage them. Herd grew to about 5-600 and spread from Nebraska to Laramie Peak.
See Wyoming elk area 3.
Elk and private land like that don't mix. Nothing to put you in a better mood than having 150 of the sorry bastards grubbin your alfalfa to the dirt , 10 license for the area, and a dumb ass biologist telling you you ain't nuthin but a pickupseat biologist.
But I've got better horns hangin on the wall that was shot on the Upper Green River with a 243..
