Re: [RC] [RC] GOVERNMENT HORSE ID-From another list - Elkenchild
I had the strange pleasure of working at an "elk feeding station" in central washington, where we were maintaining herds (4000 animals in 6 acres) that were fenced out of the lower valleys of their natural migration to keep them from eating the apple orchards and trapped without forage in the thick winter of the lower cascade mountains. "Mad deer" was a major concern, and we removed the brainstems of every dead animal to make sure they weren't wasting away from holes in their brain, or possibly passing their tainted meat on to a hunter/cattle. Washington is still disease free, but saving the elk is no joke with that kind of population density in weak winter periods, no matter how you feel about PETA, and for more reasons than one!
