Elk stare-downs in past years. The first, a hefty cow, while driving uphill on a winding forest road. She stood stock-still in the middle of the road, glaring menacingly. And after a few seconds suddenly bolted for the roadside brush.
The second encounter was on an October Deer-hunting day. I was quietly walking along an abandoned logging road near the White River. Suddenly, the crack of a limb breaking
announced the emerging of a big, lordly-looking 3-point bull Elk. He was instantly standing about 75 feet in front of me, with that same menacing eyes-locking glare. As
I began to think "What's he gonna...", with a toss of his handsomely-racked head he strode into the nearby brushy woods, out of sight in seconds.
So I s'pose that's their normal human-confrontation mode-- glare menacingly a few seconds, then break & split.

Ted Nugent, Nobama, Katrina, Raccoons. Where am I?

Be careful people of packwood, when PETA and the greenies get ahold of this information your toast. They will come in and save the ELK. You will have to leave them alone and any shoing off will be animal cruelty and harrassment punishable by 1 year in jail. You will be required to pick up all ELK poop in disposable recycle bags off your propery daily to not pollute the ground water or streams. You will also be required to plant 10% of your property with trees that horns can be rubbed on but not blocking the view from the road so bus loads of asians can take pictures, or pay a penalty. If any ELK enter your property and you do not have your 55 gallon drum full of food this will also result in stiff fines. Hay bedding areas will also be enforced on your property to sleep up to 30 ELK and replenished weekly. All these rules will be at the property owners expense, repeat offenders not following the laws will be subject to 10 years in prison. Careful this is what liberals do, u been warned.

To those complaining about the elk: Move!!! Leave those beautiful animals alone!!!

Let me guess akh, you live in the country somewhere, drive a 4x4, and hunt those poor animals. Blood sucking scum. Join the new wave and ride a bike, live in the city and vote Liberal. Why not? It hasn't worked yet!

When Pres O gets in, he is going to show his true colors and send people like you to the East side where you can drag your knuckles all day long in pursuit of something so disgusting as red meat.

Elk in the garden? I have a solution for that.......thunk.

Go Primos!!!

Seriously? You moved to the mountains most likely for peace and quiet, to get closer to nature, to slow down a bit. Now that nature is trampling your garden you want to move nature? Reminds me of people that buy a house next to an airport then want the planes to stop because they are noisy. Hey you moved there you knew the risks deal with it.

Yea I know the title People love to complain and yet what am I doing? Complaining.

management and hunting is the tool of the trade. So get on with it DNR or tribe and manage. Like always when man moves in things in nature get out of balance.

Looks like all you could do is write up a dumbdown story with a hidden agenda. Make archery hunters look bad, killing elk bad, tribal members look good. I'm sure when Nobama is president he will relocate hundreds of new elk into the area next to the new Packwood lights casino.

How dare these elk try to roam around Mt. rainier national park. They should each be hung in the town square.

What is so wrong about allowing a few elk to be killed. the residents will do it if they wish anyway, why not make it legal and make a few bucks on permits, sheesh, just don't allow an unlimited number of permits for the area. How hard is that?
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Nope witchi....no pitchurs...HEY I was buzy DRIVING! HAAA!!

Elks Lodge! Gitouttahere Beerboy....you know they coudnt put all those elk in there! and whos gonna clean up the mess!!

PETA would have a fit! Poor animals living in such squalor!

It's amazing how many people want to get near nature but don't want nature to get near them. I'd personally plant their favorite food and admire them when they came to visit. Isn't that why people move to the woods? It was for me.

I saw the remains of an 18 wheel FREIGHTLINER that tangled with an elk once...had half the front end torn off ( course its all just fiberglass up there) but it was an impressive amount of damage.

I think the LAST thing Id ever want to do is hit one in a tiny little CAR!

... move to where the elk don't live. They didn't ask you to move into their neighborhood.

How about we open a season on the developers who built the massive subdivisions over what was once wild forest land? Or the county leaders who allowed it to happen? I'll tell you, I'd much rather hunt down and kill one of them than a harmless elk.

As for racoons, they're a parasite on the human population. THEY are overpopulated and are a pest. And yes, they are viscous. Ever seen what they can do to a cat?

When they're on my land, I kill 'em.

Who cares about ELK

Shoot, the other night, in fact the last few other nights, I come wandering down my dock, go around the corner, and come face to face with a giant, menacing, man-eating HERON that has taken up residence in my neighbors inflatable!

Skeered the Bejebbers outta me fer cryin out loud!

It doesn't take a genius to expect to see wildlife when one moves to an area near forests. I would hope many people would move to areas near forests to enjoy it simply for that reason. If people want to take steps to rid or drastically decrease their areas of "rhododendron eaters," or other wildlife in general, who call those areas their home (and called those areas their home first), then that's just ludicrous! This idea is especially redicilous because there is already proof that the elk population isn't at numbers researches would like it to be. The residents who are having issues should perhaps think about moving back to the city.

By the way, my dad had a place for a few years in Packwood just until recently a couple minutes outside downtown Packwood. The attitude he showed as well as those who he talked to in Packwood was an attitude of acceptance for the elk and all other forms of wildlife. Where are the resident's throwing fits? It's Packwood and with Packwood comes wildlife such as elk.

... move back to the city. How fortunate you are to live at the foot of that beautiful mountain.

I've had to kill 6 wild vicious animals (Raccoons) in my yard this year in Tacoma.
Some animals just have to be killed especially raccoons.

Every where I go at this time of year I see fruit rotting on the ground around fruit trees. If those owners were interested in picking the fruit, it would have been picked already! Is that dog-in-the-manger or what?
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They should be thanking the elk for helping clean up the area! LOL.

Lonnie Davis, who lives in Puyallup and owns 20 acres just outside Packwood, disagrees. “The elk are not walking on our land. We built on their land,” he said. “I say just leave it as it is.”

This is happening all over the place. Native animals get pushed and pushed further out while unfortunately we keep building mostly horrible subdivisions, huge houses for small families, etc. etc.

Those poor animals have no where to go! Davis is right.