Don't believe it, the 2007 storm pushed all the elk across the Columbia River into Oregon, hasn't been an elk in the area since. Honest 
The few that are still there in all that blowdown.
In some places you spend all day "log walking", over, under, get on top and follow it across, (why, oh, why, did I go this way?..)
Then get caught w/o your bow in your hand when you get to a good spot !