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umas911
03-21-2004, 11:23 PM
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - As the Wyoming countryside begins to thaw, biologists and game wardens are canvassing the rugged terrain to solve an alarming mystery: Why have hundreds of elk slumped to the ground and died in less than two months?


http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?oldflok=FF-APO-1501&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20040321%2F1732827031.htm&sc=1501&floc=NW_5-L8



Ohio Bill
03-22-2004, 07:09 AM
wow thats bad... I hope they find out what the problem is....And I hope its not another bad disease..
Caribou Dreamer2
03-22-2004, 08:02 AM
Ah man thats not good,I hope they get a answer for this one.
Thunderflight
03-22-2004, 10:43 AM
Damn aliens.....

TF
flathunter
03-22-2004, 11:30 AM
Bigfoot strikes agin, he was chasing them poor critters and they must have fell over due to exaustion
umas911
03-23-2004, 11:45 AM
A lichen is to blame for the poisoning deaths of close to 300 elk in Wyoming's southern Red Desert this winter, state officials said Sunday.
The announcement ends a grim mystery that had baffled wildlife researchers across the continent since early February. But it raises new and potentially troubling challenges for biologists who will be studying the episode in the coming years.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0...33503%2C00.html