Up North in the Clearwater region there is an early cow season near crop land. Lots of acres in the transition zones where farmers would kiss you all over for killing an elk that has been beating their crops up all summer. The nice thing about these transition zones, not much wolf problems so there are good elk numbers. Hell, there's more elk next to farms than there is in all of the back country wilderness areas. All those back country elk have been eaten. Pretty sad...........................