EastIdahoNews.com file photo from Nov. 2023. This is not the elk referenced in the story below. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready ... The following is a news release from the Idaho Dept.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — On Feb. 12, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife sedated and rescued a bull elk that was tangled in boating lines for multiple days at Arch Cape, south of Cannon Beach.

For every American whitetail hunter, Western elk hunting is aspirational, calling to them the way Cooperstown calls to a Little Leaguer. The impossibly heavy and branching antlers of bulls are as ...