Waiparous Elk!!

[AlbertaWild]

Has any one seen elk by here or Harold Creek... i have never seen a herd once since going out here.. are they on the GRL in the area; if so where abouts...help me please.

[Don K]

Good luck... I’ve spent a lot of time out there and seen tracks.
Saw a few cows a LONG time ago. Not the place I’d be looking.

[AlbertaWild]

Yah seen tracks also... there there but im 100% sure they are night walkers there.. will have to get myself a trail cam.. and see what walks around... only thing i have ever saw there is a sow and cubs(black bears) at the end of Harold Creek Road(west) there is a lease road that goes along side of hillside to the other side; with some clear cuts on one side..one way in; one way out...seen moose droppings there when i took a walk around there.

[Wiz]

I feel like I have done a fair amount of hunting in Harold creek and have seen no elk and no elk sign. Seen some big moose and a few scatted mule and white tail... and horses... lots of horses. But no elk. Good luck.

Stay far off the main road and u may have some luck

[Puma]

I used to live near and around the Village of Waiparous and got to know a lot of the old fellas who had lived there since the 1960s. They told stories of hunting herds of Elk moving along the Ghost River.
I have lived, rode, hunted and camped for over thirty years and never seen an Elk out there.

[Mateo]

I frequent that area and they are rare. I've seen a stray a few times and the herd twice. only ever saw a bull once. they are too pressured to be worth hunting unless you luck out and know where they go at that particular day. And I bet it's far from any reasonable access during hunting season.

[Buckhorn2]

I hunt lots in that area of 316. Their is fair amount of Moose and bear and there are some decent whitetail. Ive seen mule deer as well. Wolves are leaving more sign each season. The areas i hunt used to have very little wolf activity. We found elk set of elk tracks once. Ive only been hunting it for 8 years but ive put on quite a few boot miles.


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[mindoutside]

I have only hunted the area for two years now. Always hope to see one but never do.

I have seen them on highway one near the petro. ****ed me right off!

[Puma]

Table 16. Estimated number of animals harvested in each Wildlife Management Unit (WMU)
within the Ghost Watershed. Note: Animals harvested in WMU 314 and 316 may not have been
harvested on lands within the Ghost Watershed.
Species
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
WMU 314 316 412 314 316 412 314 316 412 314 316 412 314 316 412
Mule Deer 161 123 26 205 115 61 159 142 49 195 116 37 157 111 62
Whitetailed
WT deer 914 157 54 861 140 79 754 199 87 1305 218 71 1240 203 91
Moose 100 7 0 85 23 4 101 11 14 99 22 5 97 21 16
Elk 51 0 0 65 6 0 77 3 0 154 4 0 77 0 0

Table wont cut & paste properly, something changes on AO site when I enter it but its easy to figure out. Year/3 WMU's
/harvest numbers.

[bonedogg]

basically no elk shot in 412 is what it is saying for that 5 yr span? I have found a dead 3 point elk in 412, it was old though. I have also heard stories of a heard of elk on Blackrock but never have seen any in there or round-abouts.

[Dubious]

theres lots of elk out there on the ranches and First Nations reserve right smack in the middle where you can't hunt them other than that ive see a grand total of ZERO out there. had a good friend that seen 6 cows once but that was years ago. that entire chain of zones gets nailed hard by half the population of road hunters and 1 km walkers and watchers from Calgary. you may have better luck in a foothills zone seems like every year there less and less elk in the 400-420 zones some of those zones have completely collapsed over the last 15 years.

[AndrewM]

I used to live on second house on the left up the Forestry Truck Road that leads to Waiparous. Elk on the property all the time as they were brutal on the fence. I have a bunch of pictures from a heard of around 30 moving through. Usually they were out at night though. A few times a herd was beside the highway on the 1A. Numerous in that herd.

[Puma]

Originally Posted by AndrewM

I used to live on second house on the left up the Forestry Truck Road that leads to Waiparous. Elk on the property all the time as they were brutal on the fence. I have a bunch of pictures from a heard of around 30 moving through. Usually they were out at night though. A few times a herd was beside the highway on the 1A. Numerous in that herd.

And in the daytime they are sleeping safe and sound on Simpson Ranching lands to the east. Nobody get to hunt there, nobody ever.

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by mindoutside

I have only hunted the area for two years now. Always hope to see one but never do.

I have seen them on highway one near the petro. ****ed me right off!

x2, lots of good feed and ranchers who won't let you hunt.

Grizz

[Don K]

Originally Posted by Puma

And in the daytime they are sleeping safe and sound on Simpson Ranching lands to the east. Nobody get to hunt there, nobody ever.

Simpson’s actually allow access now... get in line or know someone who has an in. There aren’t nearly the elk on their land that there were a few years ago.

[Puma]

Originally Posted by Don K

Simpson’s actually allow access now... get in line or know someone who has an in. There aren’t nearly the elk on their land that there were a few years ago.

From what I hear, Luke is running the ranch now, but Johns newest wife still says NO hunting.