An elk herd in Yellowstone, one of many that leaves the park in winter and heads to lower ground often on private land. Here's a question: if residential sprawl deprives elk of key winter range the animals need to survive and they are displaced to other pieces of property where they are unwanted, who created the problem?  Photo courtesy Jim Peaco/NPS
An elk herd in Yellowstone, one of many that leaves the park in winter and heads to lower ground often on private land. Here's a question: if residential sprawl deprives elk of key winter range the animals need to survive and they are displaced to other pieces of property where they are unwanted, who created the problem? Photo courtesy Jim Peaco/NPS