cool, I love PG where else do you read this sort of thing? Way to go PG!! I don't care what anyone says I've lived here for 30 years and I'll hopefully be here for another 30 years, this community is just so awesome! Other communities band together too, but in PG we band together to save our local wildlife!! cool. thanks for the smile PG!

Good job guys.

Elk actually damage crops. The Provincial Government has received a large number of claims from farmers for crop damage. Elk just recently destroyed apple trees etc in Naramata BC and were chased away by the orchard owners.

Seems we have people who support feedings these animals, and people who are against the idea because of crop damage etc;.

Im sure we will hear more on this subject.

I find it interesting how the "green" crowd throws out phrases like "man must never interfere with nature" or "every time man tries to control nature, we fail" then they turn around and pull something like this. Sure, it "feels good". But is it right? Nature is not squirrels and deer and bears holding hands skipping around a fire. It gets ugly sometimes. The misconception that nature must always be utopia will be our downfall. Its like the nature show where the sea turtles hatch and are heading for the water, but get eaten by all kinds of things on the way. It is gut-wrentching to watch the camera crew stand by, but its the right thing to do. Let nature take its course.

I also love how the green crowd calls modern life "unsustainable" and the biggest curse to the planet ever. But when some elk are hungry and they need brownie points, all of a sudden diesel and tractors and hay balers and plastic twine aren't such a bad thing after all.

Elk are really good eating. Fatten them up people, hunting season is just around the corner :-)

We live in a province that is full of resources and wildlife. We can co-exist wtih our wildlife.

I believe in liscenced hunting with tags, to keep one population of wildlife in check with others. I think poachers themselves need to be penalized severely.

I think road kill, meat should be made available to families of need as an option.
I would even support it as a government initiative, excellent source of protien. There are butcher shops that can get paid by the government, and it can be distributed thru the Sally Anne.

Correct me, but Elks were planted into the area about 20 years ago?

let nature take its course,its sad but thats the way it works

it drives me nuts reading what some people write. let nature take it course and things like that. fine lets do that so stop donating money to feeding and house people too because we are just animals in a way also. so what im saying is pull up your socks and donate a 100 bucks or even 5 bucks. im calling this afternoon to do my share.

Some say that Elk were introduced into this area a number of years ago. Others say it is not so.

We have thousands of Deer in the area around Prince George, how is it that the Elk need assistance and the Deer seem to be doing OK. This seems to be more of an issue of people meddling that anything else.

As for the **Road Kill** I suggest that we have people who are **Well off** eat all the Road Kill and then donate the money that they have saved to those in need. That way they could enjoy the benefits of eating road kill (good source of protein), rather than have this benefit used exclusively for people in need.

If elk were planted in the area, then this is not a natural habitat for them and do require help. We help every other creature in the world at a time in need, man included, why can't we help the elk. Man has destroyed so much of the wild animals domain, this is a bit of what we can do to hlep them.

Elk were “not” planted in this area, nor were Whitetail Deer. They have migrated into this area over the past two decades, just as Elk, Moose, Bears and wolves have migrated onto the flat prairies in the area along the Saskatchewan, Alberta border.

I forgot to mention that a herd of Elk has been resident in the area of the Nechako River and the Stewart River for many decades.
They also were not “planted”.

Attitudes will change when one of these elk kills a dog or starts hanging around in someone's yard.

Heh heh. Thats the problem with a preservationism. It makes no allowances for natural change. If an animal migrates into a new area, they are deemed "invasive alien species" and all attempts are made to exterminate them. If a species leaves an area, they are deemed "endangered" or "extinct" and surviving populations are located elsewhere, captivated, forced to breed in captivity and the offspring are "re-introduced to their native range" and forced to live in an area that no longer supports them. Either way, its "unsustainable" - I love using greenie terms against them!

Unfortunately, this is BC's environmental management strategy.

Would I be able to have road kill elk, deer or moose? If so, I will buy it, and the money can go to charity. Sure, it will be great, no growth hormones.

I would not expect it to be free to me, but it should be for people on assistance.
Or is that politically incorrect?

I was talking to a guy who works for CN rail, and out of 36 trips by rail up to Chetwyn, he has hit 31 moose. So why don’t we see these numbers published. Lot of them just gets their legs cut off and lay there till they die. Sometime days later, some one is supposed to put them out of there misery, but it doesn’t happen. So just imagine how many moose are killed every winter by CN.This is not natural population control.

It is so true, that the tracks claim so many moose, that its not even funny. That is one conductors story.

Drive from Fort St John to Fort Nelson in April, and count the road kills.

When the snow is high the Moose have no way to get off the railway tracks. In the past the Railways tried to plow some areas where they could exit however it did not work to well. A train with 100 or more loaded cars travelling at approx 40/50 miles per hour would take over one mile to stop. If they tried to stop for every moose on the track the trains would never get anywhere.

In some cases the Moose actually turn and charge the locomotive.

In any event there are a large number killed every year, and about all we can hope for is that their dead bodies feed other forms of wildlife.

This headline should read: Invasive Elk feeding Starving Residents.

If Van Spandex wants us to get rid of them invasive creatures, all he has to do is ask. We certainly can't get a draw for one.

The dna of bone findings indicate that the Elk were in BC before the Ice age and re populated the province some 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.
They have gone and come through this region for much longer than we have, but don’t let the facts get in the way of writing something that you have no idea about.