Hunters help clear abandoned wire in Montana elk country

Volunteers came from everywhere to be laborers with the annual Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation wire pull on the Montana/Idaho border. The two elk racks on the left were found on the first of the two-day pull and the one on the right was found a few years back, which is what prompted this wire-pull to be an annual event. The one without electrical wire in its antlers had it wrapped around his skeleton where it had become hung and starved to death. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent)