Subject: OT - elk, etc.
Date: Apr 25 14:52:24 1999
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 01:43 PM 4/25/99 -0700, Mary Manson wrote:
>Don Baccus, Portland OR wrote:
>
>>Our grandfathers didn't have satellite telemetry technology...
>>
>>Your statement's a strawman, anyway. The claim that some elk

>I've seen elk in different seasons in both forests/lumbering areas and open
>prairie/rolling hills over the space of many years - Olympic Mountains
>"Roosevelt" elk in timber and Eastern Washington elk on the "bare" hills
>and in tree cover in the canyons ..... I'm 64 this year so I go back quite a
>ways - like before commercial TV, much less satellites.

>Did you mean your message to be argumentative ?

Yes.

Note that I questioned the claim that the common believe is
that (all) elk (in all habitats) require cover in winter.

Your post simply adds evidence to my claim that there really
is no such common belief, which is why I called it a strawman
argument.

The implication that I share that belief was more of a
strawgiant...




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