Winthrop Elk

[alecvg]

Man, thats awesome!  I want to see the elk and moose over there so bad!  I spend enough time there, I am bound to see one one of these times!  Awesome pic, mind if I ask what direction from town it was?

[steen]

Yeah!  I was going to add something about the wolves.  I just wonder if I should pack a hand gun also while hunting there these days.  I was pretty comfortable with going up the mountain in the dark but it is kinda hard to protect yourself from a pack.  I don't think I'll let the girls go up the mountain by themselves in the dark this year.

[Okano-gun]

Don't know if it's true but I talked to a warden that said the ranchers shot the elk out of the Methow in the 30's-40's to keep them from competeing with their cattle.

[mkcj]

I wish there would have been a little more light as it was around 6pm when I seen her! Of all the deer I seen only 1 had antler's left it was a 2 point and he was missing his right side.  Alecvg here is a picture of the moose we seen on the 5010 rd and 30 mile during deer season

[Little Stu]

you can usually fitd the elk up on the rendeveus down by the disabled hunter access, she hangs out between there and big valley.

[sooperfly]

I see you met "Ellie" !   

[blacktailer]

Cool pic. sooperfly.  I think that cow thinks she's a muley!!!

[Shootmoore]

I wonder if that is the same old cow I used to watch in 2005 in Big Valley.  She had hooked up with a herd of deer.

There has been a couple small herds of elk in the Valley for years.  WDFW has wanted them out of there because they don't want to deal with the elk, apple orchard conflicts.  Deer fence does not work so well on elk.

I would rather see them replace the wolves with elk imho.
Shootmoore

[Idabooner]

Don't know if it's true but I talked to a warden that said the ranchers shot the elk out of the Methow in the 30's-40's to keep them from competeing with their cattle.

About the mid 40's I was the movie projector operator for extra credits in school. I showed the film several times of a herd of elk being killed in the deep snow by 5-6 guys on snow shoes.  The way I remember it was in the 8 mile area by the game dept.  Their reasons were elk and deer could not exist together, elk would compete with cattle, elk would ruin the apple orchards, back then the Methow was apple and cattle country. Those days they could show things like that to the school kids, probably why us old f--ts have warped minds. I personally knew the guy that headed up this deal, he was high up in the forest service, passed away last year. His two sons were my class mates.

[alecvg]

I wish there would have been a little more light as it was around 6pm when I seen her! Of all the deer I seen only 1 had antler's left it was a 2 point and he was missing his right side.  Alecvg here is a picture of the moose we seen on the 5010 rd and 30 mile during deer season

Awesome!  Thanks for posting!

[mulehunter]

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

Mulehunter  

[mountainman1]

      "Ellie" has been around a long time. Here are a couple of pics of her in December of 2006 North of Winthrop about 2 miles. It's good to here she has survived all those years by herself. 

[mountainman1]

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.

[boneaddict]

I thinks Ellie thinks she is a deer too Blacktailer.  Beds with them, feeds with them, etc, and I think the deer have adopted her, along with much of the MEthow Valley.  There is a pocket of elk to the North of her so I always figured she'd hook up, but she hasn't.

COOL MOOSE Mule!

[boneaddict]

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.