That because it was on a major highway. Mom, pop, and jr are too fat, lazy, and uninformed to do any better. If its not near a road, their TV screen, or in an article written by Dick they wont even know it happens. You might think about changing your mind set here. If you want hunters to look good or be percieved good then you cant let Dick Clever wright sh!t like this. You need to express to mom, pop, and jr. that this was not wrong and this is a managed hunt with a very low success killing method. There must be more facts stated for people to absorb the true information.

My favorite part "One elk cow’s entrails were dropping from her belly, the result of a wound possibly inflicted when she didn’t quite clear a barbed wire fence, theorized Worth Allen, an officer with the La Conner unit of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, who was at the scene." Best two words in that whole quote are "possibly" and "theorized". Neither statement is factual or confirmed, only speculation. For dummies, that statement is fact. For informed people that statement is read with a little uncertanty that it might not be true. How is it that there was not a cry for "extremely low fences" to be built so elk could clear them and not get injured. Sure nobody is blaming the farmers fence for being too high. Could it be that the elk was injured by an arrow? Could the elk have injured it self trying to get in the pasture before shooting light? Could the elk have not been injured at all and Dick is a moron and cant grasp the physical world and imagined intestines in his front row seat to HORROR (OOOOHHHH)?