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UPDATED: Train wipes out 23 elk east of Helena; warden says 'there's not much left'
Montana Standard ^ | Dec 31, 2015 | Tom Kuglin

Posted on 01/02/2016 3:16:59 PM PST by This_far

A herd of elk was hit by a train east of Helena Thursday morning, killing 23 animals.

The crash occurred near the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Spokane Creek Road, about three miles east of East Helena.

(Excerpt) Read more at mtstandard.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: buffet; elk; train
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To: kaehurowing

Instant elkburgers.


81 posted on 01/02/2016 9:51:06 PM PST by BBell
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To: xp38

The East Helena wastes are not to be traveled lightly.


82 posted on 01/02/2016 10:03:21 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

it is skunk road kill month here

skunks tend to stink when hit


83 posted on 01/03/2016 4:33:42 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: This_far

I see you fell for that liberal myth — it has been soundly debunked.

http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-the-news/yellowstone-wolves-take-a-blow-to-their-rep/


84 posted on 01/03/2016 9:02:20 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Fightin Whitey; This_far

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidspady/2013/10/28/kid-cages-at-school-bus-stops-spark-outrage-n1732543/page/full

Predator overloading into rural America is a liberal tool of the far left puke scum like Sierra Club to eliminate hunting and ranching. Rewilding. Mother Earth worship.
And behind that is agenda 21. I have wolfpimps regularly tell me that we need to move into a city because the land belongs to the wolves.

Forget property rights if these idiots get power.


85 posted on 01/03/2016 9:12:30 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Grampa Dave

It is sad news because elk herds along with caribou are being decimated by the huge gray wolf brought down from Canada to replace the timber wolf.
The new species is huge, and far more aggressive than the timber wolf.
Deer and elk are at all time lows, they almost cancelled the deer hunt in the
UP this last fall.
In British Columbia native tribes are airlifting out pregnant caribou to allow them to give birth safely. But the herds are mostly beyond recovery even after shooting some 200 wolves from helicopters.
Oregon was wise to get out from under the feds and take on their own wolf management. We’re hoping to do the same here in the Great Lakes region soon.


86 posted on 01/03/2016 9:19:48 AM PST by MarMema
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To: This_far

One smart-ass elk triple-dog-dared the other elk to put their tongues on the rails.


87 posted on 01/03/2016 9:21:13 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: This_far

http://oldmanoftheski.com/2013/02/20/trophic-cascade-theory-house-of-cards/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/3/9/1283439/-Wolf-Myths-Nuked-in-NYT

Bald faced liars indeed. 80% of baby elk at YNP were eaten before they reached one year of age. Watch for grizzly attacks to become news. They
tried to allow hunting of grizzlies because they are out of control and out of
food but the Sierra Club and fellow puke earth-something groups are suing
the feds over it, tying it up in court for as long as possible..

Make no mistake, they want all rural land free of hunting,ranching and humans in that order. The Seattle city council is trying to eliminate the zone of single family homes period. They want to add floors to apartment buildings and have everyone live in those. This is agenda 21 in its prime.
Predators are great ways to make ranching losses so severe that ranchers give up. The feds are pushing Washington state to take grizzlies and Wa officials are not happy.

We desperately need to stop the liberal movement in this country. That’s why I like Cruz but I will take Trump too.


88 posted on 01/03/2016 9:47:24 AM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema

Yes and they never get enough.


89 posted on 01/03/2016 10:49:16 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

The left really shows what predators they are on the wolf sites. Bloodthirsty
and lovers of gore.
This is the ecoterrorist movement at heart. Nothing gentle or kind about the treehuggers of today.


90 posted on 01/03/2016 11:43:53 AM PST by MarMema
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To: moose07

Not the approved method of production for venison burgers.. ;-)


91 posted on 01/03/2016 1:11:22 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (/.John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: MarMema

Yes you are right.

And the weird thing is that they are so ugly and unhappy even as they win victory after victory.

I know a couple guys hereabouts-—one of them has a gun & ammo shop, oddly enough-—whose stores I simply won’t enter anymore as I have discovered how deeply their bitter, fascist tendencies run.

They would line people like me up against the wall if they really had their druthers.

Me, I would urge nothing of the kind against them. I would simply lift all their idiot laws and strictures and penalties against the rest of us...and let them live in their lonely hopeless misery as they wish.


92 posted on 01/03/2016 1:25:41 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: This_far
Yeah, I know of it. We have underground mine fires smoldering in far Western Maryland, as well, You can see the steam seeping out of the bedrock in spots in the wintertime.


93 posted on 01/03/2016 3:14:12 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: dfwgator

OMG! That’s John Cleese, right?


94 posted on 01/03/2016 5:00:53 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
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To: DesertRhino
~How many elk and caribou did pipelines kill last decade?~

Unless it fell on their heads I'd say none were killed.

95 posted on 01/03/2016 6:30:40 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: digger48

I bet some of them looked like those 100 yard long red smears seen on the interstate.


96 posted on 01/03/2016 6:32:18 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: This_far
Cow catchers. Old is new again. This is why the locomotives had them.


97 posted on 01/03/2016 6:34:53 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: AmericanVictory
More bridges. Crossing guards.


98 posted on 01/03/2016 6:38:22 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Daffynition


99 posted on 01/04/2016 6:17:35 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono
Lining up for slaughter, like hilLIEry voters.
100 posted on 01/04/2016 12:43:43 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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