Elk prefer people on foot. Study finds ATVs, bikes disturb them most.

By On February 21, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Elk, Motor Vehicles, Wildlife Habitat

Elk prefer people on foot. Study finds ATVs, bikes disturb them most. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide.

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Ralph Maughan

Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.

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One Response to Elk prefer people on foot. Study finds ATVs, bikes disturb them most.

  1. schreinervideo says:
    February 22, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    Thanks for bringing this up. The recent judicial ruling in Idaho “allowing” endangered mountain caribou to migrate through a snowmobile area is a joke. We can’t legislate animal behavior. That’s why 21 pronghorns got killed by one vehicle in Wyoming.

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