State biologists seek answers to rut in South Fork elk numbers
Elk graze in a field along Middle Road on Thursday, April 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
When Franz Ingelfinger took over as the Kalispell area biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks four years ago, he kept hearing the same suggestion from hunters and outfitters: Check out what’s happening in the South Fork Flathead River drainage.
“They took an interest in my schooling and what was going on up there,” Ingelfinger said. “They had lots of concerns about declines in game populations within the South Fork, particularly elk, where our harvest and our game counts were at over a 100-year low."
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