I just read “Sharing Space” in the March/April 2023 issue. As you can imagine, with a property in Montana, we have animals — at this time, all of them wild. Some are big and hard on stuff.
We bought 11 acres in the Bitterroot Valley in 2019, and in all of our tramping, work, fence-building, weed-spraying, and enjoying the property, we never saw a single elk dropping. We knew elk lived nearby, but it became apparent they were very close this past fall when I went out early one morning to retrieve the truck we keep parked on the property and I heard elk bugling. If