We will be likely be seeing herds like that pretty soon. We allow public hunting and have 2 or 3 elk taken off the place in a typical year. We have had fair hunting but have not felt over-run by elk. Rich folks bought up land in a "L" shape about 2 miles to the east and 4 to the south of us. They locked the gates, shipped off all the cows, dug up the tillable land and seeded it to sainfoin to attract elk. They built a large hunting lodge and constructed an air strip. The FWP is considering changing our season to a long general season to try to reduce elk numbers. Our new neighbor will be providing refuge from hunting pressure. I fear that the concentrating the elk on their playground is asking for trouble. Soon we may be dealing with CWD, Tuberculosis, Brucellosis. To them it's just a playground, to me, it's my livelihood! Recently, I bought 160 acres of baked clay, scrub brush pastureland with no water. I wanted it because it linked up some pasture and hay fields on my place and my hauling road passed through there. A neighbor bought the portion of that place that was mostly hay fields. When I complained to my banker about paying almost as much for the rough land as my neighbor did for the good ground, the banker replied that my pasture was worth more just for the recreational value than the neighbor's hay ground?!?!? Sometime's a feller just trying to raise good beef to feed folks don't feel real appreciated!