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Will B:
Great pictures Ed!  Here in PA we were fortunate to have elk reintroduced years ago and we now have archery and gun hunts for cows and bulls in a draw. I haven’t been lucky enough to draw a tag yet but I’m hopeful it will happen one of these years. I used to take my dad an hour or so north of my hometown to view the elk every fall.

Hawkdancer:
Elk are native plains animals, but got pushed west by people!  There is a herd northeast of us near Lake McConaughey that roams out a way.  When we were in Loveland, we saw them all the time, and Estes Park has an even bigger herd!  The Loveland herd manages to take down the fences on our shooting range property at least once a year - we got a great deal of experience rebuilding fences!
Hawkdancer   

BowEd:
The deer here lossen up the top wire of fences around here too.Enough that they need to be repaired to keep cattle in properly.
Over time they will destroy the other wires also.
When repairing aged hedge row fencing the wire needs to be wired on instead of stapled.It's a neccessary thing to be done with row crop ground on the other side.Hedge posts get so hard over time that a staple will not go into them.
The wire marks on the back of brain tanned hides show this too.
Nice gesture of you for your dad.

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