The Great Elk Divide
MONTANA HAS an elk problem. It’s not that there are too few wapiti, though some hunters might make that complaint after another unproductive season. It’s that there are too few of them in the right places and too many of them in the wrong places. Montana is not alone in this elk distribution dilemma. Across the West, elk are causing consternation at levels of intensity usually reserved for failing sports franchises or chronically misbehaving dogs. In southwestern Colorado, an elk herd that was once the largest in the West is
