https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/08/11/wyoming-has-too-many-elk-and-nobodys-sure-what-to-do-about-it/Wyoming Has Too Many Elk, And Nobody’s Sure What To Do About ItThere are apparently too many elk, particularly in eastern and northeastern Wyoming, and lawmakers, ranchers, hunters and the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish are in a quandary over how to handle it.
“I always tell Game and Fish that elk are their wild horses,” Jim Magagna, executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Grower’s Association, said Friday.....
.....Magagna said that in places, elk populations are “three or four times” over the Wyoming Game and Fish department’s herd objective numbers, and some ranchers are starting to feel overrun.
Of Wyoming’s three prized big game species — antelope, mule deer and elk — elk are doing the best by far......