07-25-2008, 11:40 AM
I was talking about going down a huge canyon and back up again.
Usually the elk want to go DOWN, not back UP the mountain. I have studied this area all year and talked to the area biologist countless times about the elk in this area. I'm not saying that there are no elk from Deseret that winter on the unit (I thought we already covered that). The fact is, there are at least 10-15 CWMUs in that area that bulls can come from to winter on that unit. Not every bull you see over there comes from Deseret. Elk have exploded in that area and there are thousands of bulls all over the place, you can find elk in every surrounding CWMU as well as smaller private land parcels. I know elk pretty well and I know that elk will travel and live in some of the nastiest country in Utah, but I also know that when the snow flies, the want to go down, not UP.
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Usually the elk want to go DOWN, not back UP the mountain. I have studied this area all year and talked to the area biologist countless times about the elk in this area. I'm not saying that there are no elk from Deseret that winter on the unit (I thought we already covered that). The fact is, there are at least 10-15 CWMUs in that area that bulls can come from to winter on that unit. Not every bull you see over there comes from Deseret. Elk have exploded in that area and there are thousands of bulls all over the place, you can find elk in every surrounding CWMU as well as smaller private land parcels. I know elk pretty well and I know that elk will travel and live in some of the nastiest country in Utah, but I also know that when the snow flies, the want to go down, not UP.
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