State adds elk to Panhandle
Idaho Fish and Game crews recently captured 37 elk over two days from a non-migratory herd that has caused significant agricultural damage on private land northwest of Emmett for years and released 34 of them in the Panhandle Region's Unit 7.
"This is an experimental approach to addressing depredation, and we want to be honest about it," said Regional Supervisor Josh Royse. "This is a situation where we’ve used every other tool in the toolkit to address this depredation issue, and we haven’t moved the needle. We’re trying something new, and we will look at both the cost of this project and collar data over the next year to tell us whether and how translocation is a tool we'd reach for again."
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