FORKS — Does Clallam and Jefferson counties have any elk-friendly places left?
Lawrence Gaydeski, a farmer 5 miles north of Forks, was alarmed when he heard the Sequim herd could be relocated.
His property along the Sol Duc River — a possible new home for the Sequim elk — is already home to scores of elk, and he said he can’t take any more.
“I had no hay to cut by the time they got done with it,” Gaydeski added.
“There’s no feed left for my cattle.”
He’ll sell off the last seven head this summer, he said.
“Everybody with land on the west side of the Peninsula has an elk problem,” added Gaydeski, a Clallam County commissioner from 1983 through 1994.
“I’m about ready to chop my land into 5-acre parcels and sell it.”
The Seqium Elk Habitat Committee has scheduled a meeting in the west conference room at Sequim Transit, 190 W. Cedar St., in Sequim, at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
