clearings can act as a hold up point for elk. If your calling from the other side of a clearing and the bull comes into it, he is expecting to see another elk. When he doesn't see another elk in a opening, either he knows somethings up or it isn't worth possibly leaving his cows behind.
I would avoid calling elk through clearings. I have had elk hung up there to many times.
Good luck, keep getting after it.
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