Volunteers assist with the annual Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation wire pull on the Montana/Idaho border. The two elk racks on the left were found on the first of the two-day pull, and the one on the right was found a few years back, which is what prompted this wire-pull to be an annual event. The one without electrical wire in its antlers had it wrapped around his skeleton where it had become hung and starved to death. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent)
July 20, 2022
Stories this photo appears in:
July 21, 2022 midnight
Hunters help clear abandoned wire in Montana elk country
Plastics are destroying aquatic life in the oceans. Wind turbines are killing bats and birds that fly into them. And vacated wire is causing slow, painful deaths for elk on the Idaho-Montana state line.