Posted on 04/30/2020 2:14:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Sixteen elk died sometime during the winter at an eastern Idaho wildlife management area when a stack of hay containing 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bales collapsed and fell, crushing some of the elk and causing others to be trampled to death.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Saturday that it appears the elk broke through a high fence and ate at the bottom of the haystack, causing it to collapse.
The haystack is on the Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area about 15 miles east of Idaho Falls.
Fish and Game officials investigated after receiving a report from a concerned citizen.
The hay was leftover from an emergency feeding of elk in 2016 following a large wildfire that destroyed the elk's usual forage.
Fish and Game said they plan to remove the remaining hay this summer.
The elk carcasses were removed from the site and left for scavengers.
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Had a Florida deer (not Key deer, those are even smaller) get killed by a car right by my house one morning. By the time I came home at lunchtime, it was nothing but a skeleton. Turkey vultures are quite efficient.
Why the circa 1996 computer monitor?
And to think I threw out my dog tin foil hat last year. Doh!
Hey Bawnie, when’s the ‘waitress sandwich’?
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Even animals have to respect Isaac Newton.
Elk can compete for Darwin Awards?
Who knew?
Going to give the usual brain dead human participants some significant competition.
Don't bag one
If you can't drag one.
(My draggin' days are past.}
“That is my theory. It is mine. And so it is, too.”
Hay left over from 2016. I would think it would be full of mold or fungus.
lol
When you’re hungry after winter, what’s a bit of mold?
It does make you wonder why they didn’t break in in 2017, 2018, or 2019.
I like to pretend it’s the 1990’s. LOL
Still was mostly a good decade for me.
Never throw out tinfoil! It’s always useful!
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