But it does make it easier for the stock to get dinner...
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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I think an “Elk Feeding Training” project is needed to teach them to eat from the top of the pile.
Because Elk don’t play Jenga very well...
They’ll dress out.
But it does make it easier for the stock to get dinner...
The toxic nature of those particular carcasses though would present a danger to wildlife and local water quality.
Gawd I wish that was on film...
(close enough)
It gives real relevance to the phrase my Granddad used to say: “Its like looking for an elk in a haystack.”
Or something like that, I can’t recall exactly….
I thought I read about a semi-famous person in the UK being killed by a round bale that rolled into a roadway and I was right.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-11195393
If you wish hard enough and long enough, most dreams can come true.
Darn! I forgot the Fracking!
That too!!!
Sad for the elk and their ilk.
Wow.. all that meat gone to waste..
Our bales were the smaller twine tied ones, you learned how to stack them so they didn’t fall over..
These big round fellars wouldn’t likely stack as well.
square v. round? the debate goes on.. except for the recent elk victims.
No danger at all. Nature is designed perfectly to take care of such a situation, even down to the bones. Only threat to water quality is if the animals die in an active drainage. Full grown cow only lasts about 3 days around here before the predators have it stripped to the bone.
The elk were playing Jenga...and they all lost. Moral of the story...don’t eat from the bottom of a stack of bales.
They didn’t social distance themselves to stay safe.
They all tested positive for CV19, ergo, they are casualties of the pandemic.
Beware of free food.
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