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Opinion

February 24, 2007

Our View - SaturdayHunting for answers Culling elk herd doesn’t have to be complicated Leave it to career bureaucrats to make a federal case out of a little wildlife problem. The federal government’s answer to an exploding elk population in Rocky Mountain National Park is typically complicated and unnecessarily expensive, with the Park Service planning to hire specialized sharpshooters, at undoubtedly inflated rates, to cull the herd gradually over many years, at an estimated cost of $18 million. But Colorado Rep. Mark Udall, a Democrat from Eldorado Springs who has senatorial ambitions, has a better idea. Udall wants to take