The following paragraph was taken out of the newspaper article linked in one of the first posts on this thread.

"But then, Boling said, they were told they were in a "no-shooting" zone and perhaps "recklessly" shooting. The hunting party had received permission from the property owner, Boling said, and he'd been hunting there for years."

One person's hunt is another person's harvest. From what I've gathered this season is designed as a control "hunt" with restrictions on firearms allowed. It is not much different than the efforts to control the Sequim elk herd with limited license distribution and the state utilizing a "hunt master" to "guide" the "hunter" so that elk are harvested on specific properties where the landowner allows harvest.

Compared to a "canned" hunt inside a fence on a game farm, in this situation the elk could have moved. It appears, though, that this herd is habituated to human presence and doesn't move unless a person approaches inside the elk "comfort zone" as evidenced by the picture of the elk standing in the background.