LAST EDITED ON Aug-21-15 AT 08:44PM (MST)[p]That's an amazing bull. I love the velvet and hope you were able to save it. Pretty rare to see a velvet bull mounted.
Landowners have everyone over a barrel. They can get money from hunters for access, and also try to extort money from the DWR for wildlife damage.
IMO many of our Utah elk problems stem from elk quickly finding out they don't get bothered much on private land. Naturally that is where they want to hang out. So the public land bulls get killed quickly and the private land bulls just eat the landowner's hay and get old. No doubt they can cause problems for ranches/farms, but it seems that if farms and ranches wanted to get rid of the elk, they could allow hunters to do their harassing for them.
Kudos to you PR for taking full advantage of your opportunity!