When it comes to elk in Wyoming and Idaho, it could be a case of different places, same problem. Idaho’s elk herds are booming, but hunters complain they can’t get on private land to hunt them.
In one instance involving 100 elk that won’t budge from private ground, Idaho Fish and Game is proposing relocating some, and sending in state game agents to kill the rest.
In some cases, agents have been sent in to kill elk on private property in Wyoming too. Either because hunters couldn’t kill them or weren’t allowed access.
No Access For Hunters?
Idaho elk hunter and retired federal trapper Carter Niemeyer told Cowboy State Daily the hunters’ gripes in his state sound like those of many Wyoming elk hunters…