"he rumors were flying during and after this fall’s elk hunting season in the game management units (GMUs) west of Yakima. With the Muckleshoot tribe having announced its hunters would be hunting deer and elk in nine Yakima-area GMUs, a lot of non-tribal hunters had a justification ready in the event they came up empty.

It must be the Indians’ fault, right? Those tribal guys must have just come in and cleaned out all the elk, right?

Certainly that was the popular rumor.

I talked to one hunter who said the men in his hunting party on Cleman Mountain were told by a game warden that Muckleshoot tribal hunters had taken some ridiculously high number of elk from that GMU — something like 400."

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Scott Sandsberry: Elk rumors are likely just that (Sports Yakima 12/5)