You're going to think I'm COMPLETELY full of shit, but this is the God's honest truth.
People hunt from ATVs up here.
The hunters in the North Idaho Fucking Idiot Preserve will go out in the woods with two ATVs and two rifles. They hit the ground an hour before sunrise (which is the legal start of hunting time in Idaho), roar up and down the hills until an hour after sunset (the legal end of hunting time) looking for a deer or an elk to kill, don't find either one, come back to town and send a letter to the editor about how the wolves have decimated the deer and elk populations in North Idaho.
These are elk. Please to notice the things under the antlers on each side of their heads. These things are called "ATV detectors." Deer have them too. Elk are genetically programmed to head for Canada when they sense ATVs within five miles of them.
Yes, the elk harvest numbers and elk population numbers are down, and yes there is wolf predation...but hunter stupidity has a lot to do with it too.
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