ELK: Photo was newsworthy

The gruesome dead elk pair pictures last week is newsworthy as it gets.

It begs the question, shall our sue-happy society conclude that the Idaho Department of Fish and Game owes that hobby farm rancher a new barbed wire fence for destroying private property? The bull elk in the rut had no business destroying that fence or trespassing. Or did they?

Is there any facet of what makes life special here in the panhandle as we know it better with more people moving here?

Neither the treehugger, tree harvester or trapper benefits from more transplants building more barbed wire fences here. Yet we do.

Thanks for the ugly truth, Coeur d’Alene Press!

MIKE RENO

Post Falls