{"id":1318028,"date":"2020-02-02T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993219"},"modified":"2020-02-02T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:10:07","slug":"monday-letter-helping-elk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/monday-letter-helping-elk\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday letter: helping elk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Post Independent Letters to the editor graphic\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.png 600w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/letters-to-the-editor-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Another way to help elk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The Post Independent has run several articles over the past few months discussing the controversial topic of reintroducing wolves into Colorado. One of the most recent, \u201cThe wolves aren\u2019t waiting for Colorado voters,\u201d Post Independent, Jan. 15, quotes Garfield County commissioner Mike Samson as saying that reintroducing wolves \u201cwould be devastating for the moose, elk and deer population of our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, it was instructive to read Scott Condon\u2019s article in the Feb. 1 Post Independent, \u201cLost in the crowd,\u201d in which he reports that Paul Millhouser, a researcher for the nonprofit conservation group Rocky Mountain Wild found that, yes, the elk population has declined 50% from the year 2000, but that the decline is due to the number of people recreating on public lands, both winter and summer. \u201cThere\u2019s more people there, (so) the elk don\u2019t want to be there.\u201d Mountain bikers, backpackers, snowmobiles, dirt bikes, backcountry skiing and snowboarding were cited as intrusive causes of the decline.<\/p>\n<p>If some think that banning wolves might stop the decline in elk population and, perhaps, lead to its increase, would they support banning human activity in areas favorable for elk in order to increase the elk population?<\/p>\n<p>Just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl Oelke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/monday-letter-helping-elk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another way to help elk &nbsp;The Post Independent has run several articles over the past few months discussing the controversial topic of reintroducing wolves into Colorado. One of the most recent, \u201cThe wolves aren\u2019t waiting for Colorado voters,\u201d Post Independent, Jan. 15, quotes Garfield County commissioner Mike Samson as saying that reintroducing wolves \u201cwould be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 02:29:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}