I would like to inform all MN hunters that the elk population is at 30.I contacted our DNR to find out if they plan on increasing the pop.They said that they would like to do something,but they can't because of a state law,saying we can only support 30 of them.I feel that we can support more than that.If any other MN hunter feels the same way.The DNR told me we need to voice our concerns on the law to our legislators.So I encourage all the hunters in MN to do the same.Because I will do the same.And contact the DNR also to say that you would like to see a increase in the population.If Kentucky can do it,We can also.If you belong to a hunting club,Get them to write or call the legislator to. thaks for your time,.And good luck this fall to all the hunters out their.

just wait till those wolves findem <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>! I had heard a while back they tried to implant caribou on the north side of Upper Red....sounds like they never took. My grandpa was telling me about it when we were out chasin grouse...I always wondered about it...

You will need to find money to aid the farmers and Kentuckys terrain is different than ours. I would love to see more but it would cost a lot of money and land acquisition.

The terrain in northern MN and the north shore is ideal.What we need to do is get our state to give some funding to the DNR to transport some more elk here.Plus don't you think that all the hunting clubs wouldn'y try to raise money? On the other hand,For what the DNR spent on the transporting moose from Utah to here to put tracking collars on them to do a study on them.When they could of put one on a moose that lives here in the northern area.I just feel that the state could benefit from them down the road.Besides what does the farmers have anything to do with it?Theirs more farming down in the southern part.where they already have a pop. is near the red lake reservation/and on the public land in NW.MN.

I would love to see Elk here!! I just read on the DNR website that we had some, and I thought that was the coolest. I'll be writing to my legislature for the movement of elk here. It is a dream of mine to go elk hunting, and it would be cool to do it in my home state!
~Cody

Huntfinger if you read on the history of our state the boreal forests were ideal for woodland caribou. Realize where Elk naturally occur. I do agree they may survive the north shore. You do realize that Canadiens farm. Don't put down the farmers. They supply us with our food.

Huntfinger if you read on the history of our state the boreal forests were ideal for woodland caribou. Realize where Elk naturally occur. I do agree they may survive the north shore. You do realize that Canadiens farm. Don't put down the farmers. They supply us with our food.

I'm not putting down the farmers.Give better explanation on the aid to farmers. Are assuming that the elk should be farm bred or are you saying that they will spread to the farm fields where they have their cattle graze? We are in MN,not in Canada.Are you saying if they cross the border and start damaging the farms in their area. that we need to compensate them?If that's so. Maybe if one of their Grizzlies crosses our border and mauls a person we shoud have them compensate the persons family? But really,If that becomes a problem,we can either deal with it , much like we deal with the wolves up here,Compensate the farmer.Plus if it gets real bad then we have a thing called controled harvesting like what we have for bears,hunters will get drawn in a lottery every other yr. than once in a liftime.Again I'm not putting down farmers,My family came from farming,and some still do farm.Also I would rather eat what I harvest than any Domesticated animal any day of the year.I'm sorry but I would love to hunt all the animals that this great state had in the past,than having to go out west to hunt those wonderful animals,I'm a 365 day hunter,not a seasonal hunter!!

Hey Buckmine where are you at haven't heard from you.Don't want to finish the debate?

there are plenty of farmers in N.W Mn that would love to give you a ear full on their opinion on the Elk there!!--they do cause alot of damage even the few we have