Huge migration video

[6speed]

Not sure if this has been posted or not but its a great video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1rpoiQit4&feature=related

Taken on highway 20 about 15 miles north of Mountain Home. I drive through there all the time I wish I could have been there for that.

 

[tarheel]

Wonder why the driver felt he had to crowd them instead of letting them cross unmolested?

 

[Topgun 30-06]

Didn't see any "molesting" going on! Most of the herd were across the road by the time he got anywhere close to the last of them. Once a bunch like that starts moving in a chosen direction, there isn't much that's going to stop or turn them.

 

[highmountian]

Good herd n they do that every year!

 

[6speed]

Wonder why the driver felt he had to crowd them instead of letting them cross unmolested?

I didn't see any molesting in the video either? We have laws against that sort of thing in Idaho you know.

 

[Elkmagnet]

That's a lot of elk but spread them across their summer range (hundreds of square miles) and all of the sudden it doesn't seem like a lot.

 

[tarheel]

I didn't see any molesting in the video either?

I think most people know what I meant by "molesting"; does crowding, pushing, or any other definition make more sense, and does the driver's action need defending? I would think less human/wild animal interaction would benefit both in the end. Just my opinion.

There was another Youtube clip about a year ago taken in Colorado of an even larger herd trying to cross an ice covered road, slipping, sliding, falling into the road ditch while two way traffic waited in awe. Tried to find it but it must be deleted.

 

[huntbux]

Cool video thanks for sharing.

 

[IdahoHombre]

Very cool video. That would've been something to see!

 

[fishing4sanity]

Been down that road many times, I just wish I would have been there THAT time. Thanks for sharing the video.

 

[Topgun 30-06]

Tarheel---You obviously don't know anything about elk from the comments you have made now twice! The driver was stopped and then was just inching along as they were filming the elk "doing their thing"! He and that auto didn't disturb them one friggin bit!!! I saw the other video you mentioned and it was the same basic thing where people were stopped fairly close to where that huge herd crossed the two lane road. You probably should have quit after your first post on this one!

 

[tarheel]

Tarheel---You obviously don't know anything about elk from the comments you have made now twice! You probably should have quit after your first post on this one!

Topgun, I have no intention of getting in a p-ssing contest with you over a difference of opinion so trivial, but for the record; I lived in and hunted elk in the West for enough years that I probably know about as much of elk habits as most do, so that's all I have to say on the matter.