Elk eat a lot of grass. The Rocky Mountain elk of the east Cascades
use grass at higher elevations because of more moisture (and cover)
through the summer, but are forced down slope when snow covers these
areas in the fall. The areas of little or no snow provide forage
through the winter. The flat area (West Bar) along the Columbia River
east of the Colockum Wildlife Area south of Wenatchee is a good spot
to see wintering elk beginning November every year. Elk and mule deer
both winter near Vantage.

Randy Hill, Othello


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Subject: Re: OT - elk, etc.
Author: <tonihawr at email.msn.com> at ~internet
Date: 04/25/1999 1:43 PM


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 ? or is that just the
limitation of email not allowing for much expression ..... ;-) .....

Toni
tonihawr at email.msn.com