© 2009 Guy Hand
Wild elk are a Rocky Mountain icon. When over a hundred domestic, farm-raised elk escaped from a private hunting preserve in eastern Idaho last August, the news ignited controversy. Many fear that Idaho’s relatively new domestic elk industry could threaten the region’s wild herds with disease and genetic impurity. Some are calling on the legislature to ban the state’s 78 elk ranches and hunting preserves. Guy Hand looks at the domestic elk issue and the philosophical question: Where should we draw the line between the forest and the farm?
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Elk Ranchers Roy and Kristy Sternes © 2009 Guy Hand
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Guy Hand is a writer, public radio producer and photographer specializing in food and agriculture.
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