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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2010, 07:29:23 AM »
no way. i hunt there every year and always thought that randevuex pass looked like great elk habitat and i could never understand why there were none. i have seen moose (a bull, cow and calf) out in the area but never any elk. i'm glad to here they are movin in. anyone have any more pics
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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2010, 08:05:08 AM »
bone, wasn't there also a slaughter on Buck Pass in the early 70's.  I've heard the story several times over the years.  Maybe it's the one you mentioned in the French Ck. area?  Details were basically the same. :dunno:

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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2010, 08:06:27 AM »


There was a big controversy back when I was a kid.  There was quite a herd developing and they got caught down in French Creek, or the country North of Pateros.  The game department slaughtered them all.  The started milling in a panic and they dumped them.  The unfortunate thing for the WDFW was that there was snow on the ground, so their little escapade left a big bloody mess.  Th eValley was outraged.  There is actually another nice little herd brewing over there and I hope it does well.  It had a huge bull in it and everyone was after it.  

I have heard of this slaughter, or perhaps the slaughter I heard of was a different, more recent one.  I heard that 38 elk were slaughtered.  This type of decision making by the WDFW really pisses me off.  Far too often they attend more to the "needs" of orchardists and ranchers than they do to the needs of hunters, photographers, and wildlife watchers.



Between Wintrop and Twisp three months ago. Saw two  bulls.

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Mulehunter, I know this is not where am I but that was not between Twisp and Okanogan was it? The ones in the deep snow at about 4000 feet in elevation.
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I agree with Mountainman; the habitat in the moose image you posted looks more like the area up on Loup Loup Pass than the area between Twisp and Winthrop.  Are you sure it wasn't up on the Loup that you found the moose?
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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2010, 09:13:24 AM »
THere was a moose hanging in the bottom of ALder this fall.  Ground Zero for wolves, so not sure how long that will last.  There have been numerous sightings throughout the years in that lower TR just outside of town.  They've started really developing that though so probably not much anymore. 

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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2010, 10:18:55 AM »
Speaking of "Ellie" hooking up with the deer and not going to find the elk herd.....  We had a resident pure white doe in our neck of the woods that we would see most time we went deer scouting.  She did not hand out with her kind either but with a farmers holstein hiefers.  I don't think she could reproduce and felt secure in a herd of black and white.  She was known to go near the barns but I don't know if she went in.  She was fat a sassy like a Boer goat instead of slender like the blacktails.  When the holstein herd moved she went across the road and hung out with some beef cows.  She has been gone for some years now, but I think she was pretty up there in years. 

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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2010, 11:41:04 AM »
Can't see the pics at work.  I'll look when I get home tonight.
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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2010, 06:20:30 PM »
Hey steen was that deer in north Marysville Arlington area?

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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #37 on: March 09, 2010, 09:31:47 PM »



Between Wintrop and Twisp three months ago. Saw two  bulls.

Mulehunter  :)

Mulehunter, I know this is not where am I but that was not between Twisp and Okanogan was it? The ones in the deep snow at about 4000 feet in elevation.
Mulehunter,
I agree with Mountainman; the habitat in the moose image you posted looks more like the area up on Loup Loup Pass than the area between Twisp and Winthrop.  Are you sure it wasn't up on the Loup that you found the moose?
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I went thur upper Bear Ck pass Gamedept Office East of Wintrop all around the top East Thought it could be between Wintrop and twisp. I may be wrong.

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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #38 on: March 13, 2010, 06:36:43 PM »
Nonetheless, amazing photos. Thanks for posting.

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Re: Winthrop Elk
« Reply #39 on: March 14, 2010, 05:30:09 PM »
had pics of a moose last summer in between twisp/winthrop....saw fresh moose sign just outside of carlton last deer season...

it would be cool if they could build a population

 


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