>Great pics. Thanks for posting.
> Did you see any
>calves?
More than anything, I wanted to photograph newborn elk cables, but sadly, the whole time I was there, I only saw two and could get a photo of neither. Between the wolves and the bears, most elk calves don't' make it long.
When my wife and I honeymooned in Yellowstone, in the mid 70's, which was long before the elk herds reached their top numbers, there were new born elk calves everywhere that year. And that was around June 12-13-14th of that year. I was there less than a week earlier this year and ended up seeing just two calves.
I am certainly not anti wolf, but there needs to be some way to manage them, once they leave the Park, or the rest of Wyoming,, Montana, Idaho etc, will end up facing the same situation that the park is now facing. I can't understand, how all the wolf lovers can't see or understand, that once the prey is doomed, the predators are doomed too.
Zeke I sure hope you fill your wolf tag, and I hope Wyoming gets their season this fall as there needs to be a big reduction in force. I thunk a few around will sharpen the defenses of other prey, but too many, with the way things are today will end up devastating the wild herds.
I just found the same bulls you took pics of a few weeks ago. It's amazing to see the transformation. Hope you don't mind me using your pics to show the comparison: