Hunting Washington Forum

Other Activities => Shed Hunting => Topic started by: bbarnes on April 09, 2021, 08:45:33 PM


Advertise Here
Title: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: bbarnes on April 09, 2021, 08:45:33 PM
Anyone else finding elk dead out shed hunting I've found 17 so far with massive hoof rot.Please post photos and locations or pm I'm in the process of producing a you tube channel to bring attention to this situation it's gone on WAY TO LONG!!!!!
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: highside74 on April 09, 2021, 08:54:03 PM
I don't have anything to add but I appreciate your effort.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: PolarBear on April 09, 2021, 08:58:52 PM
Luckily our local herds do not have it yet but a few miles away in Vail I hear they are finding a few dead elk with hoof rot. A few years back it was really bad in the Rock Creek area of the Pe Ell South unit.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: bornhunter on April 09, 2021, 09:13:44 PM
Luckily our local herds do not have it yet but a few miles away in Vail I hear they are finding a few dead elk with hoof rot. A few years back it was really bad in the Rock Creek area of the Pe Ell South unit.

It still is.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: PolarBear on April 09, 2021, 09:28:34 PM
Luckily our local herds do not have it yet but a few miles away in Vail I hear they are finding a few dead elk with hoof rot. A few years back it was really bad in the Rock Creek area of the Pe Ell South unit.

It still is.
:'( :'(
My daughter passed on 5 different branched bulls in the Pe Ell S because they were so sick and emaciated. All could barely walk.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: millerwheeler on April 09, 2021, 10:13:54 PM
Anyone else finding elk dead out shed hunting I've found 17 so far with massive hoof rot.Please post photos and locations or pm I'm in the process of producing a you tube channel to bring attention to this situation it's gone on WAY TO LONG!!!!!

Show some pics  of what your finding
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: Tbob on April 09, 2021, 10:30:18 PM
I’ve found a few the last few years and have seen plenty of other limpers out there. I’ll try and start documenting it
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on April 10, 2021, 07:49:56 AM
Looking forward, with morbid curiosity to seeing pictures...
17 dead elk should have those UW people should be looking at.
.
Most herds I run into are smaller than that.
.
So that would be one whole herd, or you been doing a lot of walking...

.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on April 10, 2021, 07:51:45 AM
I have seen herds that have a lot of limpers, but not dead ones...
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: Westside88 on April 10, 2021, 08:03:41 AM
Didn’t WDFW shoot a bunch in that area a few winters ago? I sure hope a solution can be found before we don’t have any elk left
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: huntingfool7 on April 10, 2021, 08:21:15 AM
tagging
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: CastleRocker on April 10, 2021, 09:07:23 AM
About 10 years ago, on one of our last trips out behind our house hunting sheds, we found 14 carcasses in one day.  Called WDFW twice.  My son found 6 more after that, so we called again.  We don't shed hunt out there any more, as there are no more elk.  Our neighbor said he saw a couple last year, so hopefully they are on the way back. 
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: Alan K on April 10, 2021, 09:31:38 AM
Out towards Pe Ell/Boistfort numbers are waaaay down, but it seems a lot of the herds only have a handful of limpers versus 80% like it was 5-10 years ago. The sickening part is its been down there for 20-25 years. Loooong time to work its way through the population before they start building back up.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: bornhunter on April 10, 2021, 09:38:45 AM
I am not to far from pe ell. 3 herds close to my place total right at 100 head. Rough count last time over 90 had the rot. One dead branch bull found behind my place a month ago.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: nwwanderer on April 15, 2021, 06:51:16 PM
Dr. wild might like to see what you have
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: bbarnes on April 15, 2021, 07:28:23 PM
WDFW and the DR have received lots of photos,myself and my team have compiled.We are also giving info to our law makers in the state.Also waiting for WDFW to respond to our list of questions and get our meeting scheduled.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: bbarnes on April 15, 2021, 07:31:33 PM
WDFW and the DR have received lots of photos,myself and my team have compiled.We are also giving info to our law makers in the state.Also waiting for WDFW to respond to our list of questions and get our meeting scheduled.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: High Climber on April 15, 2021, 08:50:26 PM
WDFW and the DR have received lots of photos,myself and my team have compiled.We are also giving info to our law makers in the state.Also waiting for WDFW to respond to our list of questions and get our meeting scheduled.

Thank-you guys for trying to make a difference and help our herds. It’s sad what things have become. Let me know if you need any help locating limpers anywhere in the area
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: nwwanderer on April 18, 2021, 06:53:55 AM
Thank you
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: trophyhunt on April 18, 2021, 07:37:38 AM
Is there a state wide map that shows where cases of hoof rot have been confirmed?
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: Chesapeake on April 28, 2021, 09:54:08 PM
Hoof rot report map. When you harvest an elk with hoof rot your supposed to report it at this site. You can also report observations, when you find dead elk with hoof rot, ect....

https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/diseases/elk-hoof

Looking on the map there doesn't appear to be a report or reports of 17 dead elk found in 2021. Maybe to recent and not yet displayed on the map? 


BBarns,

Are you the fellow handing out the "Defund WDFW" stickers around town?




Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: Skyvalhunter on April 29, 2021, 06:34:29 AM
 :bash:
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on April 29, 2021, 07:34:55 AM
Still want to see pictures...
.
Better than a scat picture...
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: ne kid on April 29, 2021, 07:58:20 AM
Any chance I could get some stickers?
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: pianoman9701 on April 29, 2021, 11:31:00 AM
WDFW and the DR have received lots of photos,myself and my team have compiled.We are also giving info to our law makers in the state.Also waiting for WDFW to respond to our list of questions and get our meeting scheduled.

Bruce, is the study that's being done by WSU an improvement over the "work" that was done while it was completely in the hands of the WDFW? Or, are outside parties who may have a stake in the result still finding it? Is Dr. Fairbrother still involved?
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: Blacktail_Obsessed_19 on May 03, 2021, 02:51:07 PM
thats crazy because Elk hunt a lot from bawfaw to trap creek and mainly in the rock crk-trap crk areas and I have only seen one bull with hoof rot on that side in the last 3 years and the one I did see was close to the farm fields. The most hoof rot i see up there is strictly the bawfaw side. I have no idea of cause, But I have started to notice in the willipa hills the closer to farm fields the more elk with hoof rot I have seen. not sure why, but it really sucks when you do see them.
Luckily our local herds do not have it yet but a few miles away in Vail I hear they are finding a few dead elk with hoof rot. A few years back it was really bad in the Rock Creek area of the Pe Ell South unit.

It still is.
:'( :'(
My daughter passed on 5 different branched bulls in the Pe Ell S because they were so sick and emaciated. All could barely walk.
Title: Re: Finding hoof rot dead elk shed hunting
Post by: grundy53 on May 03, 2021, 03:24:12 PM
I hunt that general area too. I agree that most of the limpers I see are down by the farmer's fields.

Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal