Department of the Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne toured Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota and came away with a statement that he would support using local hunters as a means of thinning an overgrown elk herd.
Don’t get too excited over this statement. These have been made before and it’s not a completely honest one. Although details are never revealed in such statements, more than likely the opportunities that might be made available are not in line with what we would call a traditional opportunity to hunt elk.
It would be nice to shut down the park for a short time and allow a bona fide elk hunt to take place but realistically, I just don’t see that happening.
Tom Remington
*Note* – Some of this information came from the Associated Press who doesn’t want bloggers linking to their articles etc. without paying. Therefore, I am not providing a link.
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