Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest

[Sumpnneedskillin]

"Park rangers have fatally shot an elk that had been damaging tents and charging at patrol cars around the Hoh Rain Forest"

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/124256114.html#13086722441981&if_height=279

[Huntbear]

Paint Markings??   

[Woodchuck]

So the elk was a painter, whats wrong with that? 

[Huntbear]

Just making sure the dumb ass rangers did not shoot a horse and call it an elk.   

[Woodchuck]

well.............I have heard of stranger things

[pianoman9701]

Sounds like maybe a mother's aggression.

[Huntbear]

well.............I have heard of stranger things

Yea like hunters shooting a mule, thinking it was a cow elk??   

[TheHunt]

She got into someone's pot stash...   

I wonder if her calf was near by and she was over protective...  I am assuming the Rangers looked for a calf. 

[Woodchuck]

Someday I will tell you a funny story about a moose that was killed in Minnesota and was offered up as an entry into the local big buck contest because "it is a member of the deer family" 

[Sumpnneedskillin]

Sounds like maybe a mother's aggression.

That's what I was thinking when I read the story. 

She got into someone's pot stash...   

I wonder if her calf was near by and she was over protective...  I am assuming the Rangers looked for a calf. 

I hope so but you never know.

[HOYT6.0]

Are they sure it was a Elk and not a MT. Goat...

[pianoman9701]

I misread it to read "Rangers kill aggressive Ho in Elk Forest". I guess that's my faux pas.

[JimmyHoffa]

Sounds like maybe a mother's aggression.

This is what I heard from someone that knew people being charged.  Supposedly the elk had a calf that she was keeping a few feet from the trail.  Then all the hikers would cruise by and try to take pictures.  What I heard was that the elk would lay down next to the trail and when people got to close she would get up and stomp her hooves.  Then when they would try to get closer she would charge (bluff), and then go back to the calf.  Although maybe it ate a magic mushroom...about two years ago there were two young bulls in the same area that would snort and bluff charge people in the summer.  They wandered off during the rut.

[PlateauNDN]

I misread it to read "Rangers kill aggressive Ho in Elk Forest". I guess that's my faux pas.

     

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

Idiots, do they shoot every bison that charges a tourist who gets to close in yellowstone?!  They are wild animals, keep your distance!  I understand bears or cougars, but really, you has to shoot an elk?!