“The question is, was the landowner group allowing enough public hunting access to get the elk numbers down?”

Moline agreed that if elk can find safe haven from hunters on certain properties, it can become impossible to cut their numbers down.

That’s one thing we’re trying to figure out. How do we work with landowners who don’t allow hunting? It might not affect those landowners, but it can affect their neighbors. How do we get them to allow hunting?” he said.