’Copter-based collar work means stressful day for elk, but aids research for good of species

If elk could talk, four of them near Aspen would have quite the story to tell their herdmates about what they experienced Friday morning. There, each one of them was, minding its own business, when in swooped this noisy, airborne contraption, from which a net was shot its way. Before the elk knew it, it was being hobbled, blindfolded, and wrapped in a sling, to be hauled off dangling beneath a

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