Their warnings are proving prophetic. The Elk-Ranch Boom by Ted Williams Elk ranching is thriving. It's difficult for me to understand those who are satisfied with shooting elk in a pen. While I won't pass judgment on those individuals, I pity them for what they've missed. There is no way to test live animals for it.
Nobody knows how it is transmitted from one animal to another.
It is always fatal. Mystery by Hal Herring Elk as livestock fire no hunter's heart, inspire no hunter's art. When you hear an elk bugle in Wyoming, there s not much chance he lives behind a chain-link fence or that somebody wrestled him into a squeeze chute and sawed off his antlers early in the summer.