Elk belong here cattle are the intuders

Its finale.The MDC is going ahead with its elk stocking program.I hope for the best for everyone,BUT knowing most game departments its all about MONEY..I will bet they will have some ridiculous type of hunt someday and once again will violate the constitution and try and charge the property owner to use their own land..
Going back to my work with Elk out west our problem was the Elk populations were getting smaller and the hunters had been trying to tell the bigwigs for years they knew the answer,but everytime the Game dept would come up with we do not have the funds.Absolute Bullshit ..
A group of hunters called their bluff in the Newspapers and said they would pay for the study.The claimed problem was the forest service and BLM and State needed to get the cattle out because they were eating the Elk out of house and home.What they did was run a 8 ft fence before the spring migration for miles where the elk and cattle would be separted..After 2 years the pictures were stunning..The side where only cattle had access looked like the aftermath of a nuculer attack..Vegetation,trees gone as high as one could reach water holes stomped shut and full of their crap and stunk to high heaven..The side where the Elk had access looked better than it did before the test and there were estimated almost twice as many Elk sometimes..The hunters had proved their case..Also in the study it was found that cattle eat as much as 10 times as Much as Elk sometimes and their droppings were about the same compared to what they ate.Also Elk and deer will almost never go wadeing and crapping in the water holes.They will stay around the edges.The cattle would go right into the springs and lay down,defecate,and the act of them walking would close the springs shut..Due to lawsuits from cattleman it was almost 20 years to get them out and much of the high country has still not come back to where it used to be..People seem to forget that ELK are the residents here and cattle are a foreign introduced species..