A survey by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department suggests that 14 percent of the elk wintering on the National Elk Refuge near Jackson have been exposed to brucellosis, a far higher rate than in areas where the state doesn't feed elk during the winter.
Duh!!! I could have told you that would be the case without all the testing but I understand they needed the information in hand to prove to the people that think feeding the elk is such a wonderful thing that there is a problem with it. Whether this information will do any good to close the feedgrounds down will have to be seen.
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. Christopher Lasch
