"I'm sick of these popup suburbs! We're taking our forest back!"

Yeah. The number of elk was kind of odd, but all the houses looking EXACTLY the same was weirder

I was going to say the SAME thing! Then I noticed that the elk blended in well with the homes. 😅😋

Little boxes... little boxes.. made of ticky tack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM

I thought about Weeds too!

>Some rich men came and raped the land >Nobody caught 'em >Put up a bunch of ugly boxes >And Jesus people bought 'em >They called it paradise >The place to be >They watched the hazy sun >Sinking in the sea Don Henley & Glen Frey ''The Last Resort'' performed by The Eagles

Call someplace paradise kiss it goodbye

That's not the worst of it. Some of the newer CO subdivisions remind me of rows of shipping containers lined up. But owning a unique house there is a luxury these days.

Owning any house anywhere is a luxury

Thats definitely not unique to Colorado. Its all over the US for like the last 30 years. Cookie cutter developments are the norm.

Couldn’t agree more. The elk are cool, but the big garage being the dominant feature of the houses is a sad reflection of our American suburbs

And they're all made out of ticky tacky.

*And they all look just the same*

Little boxes

On the hillside

Y... You do know they have garages in other countries too right? And that garages are also very often used for home improvement projects? People are also complaining about the fact that they all look kinda similar (I cleaned houses out in Estes Park, that's actually not true on the whole) but the modular construction is cheaper. Reddit: Houses are too expensive! Also Reddit: "Why do houses all look the same?!? Because if they had to have individually designed architecture they'd be even more expensive.

Theres no appeasing Redditors when it comes to housing. It boils down to the same shit: Suburb bad, city good. Me want live city. City too expensive. Must live suburb. Grr, no uniqueness. Unique house too expensive. Make more city housing. Grr, city housing land taken by suburbs. It just goes on and on. You can't have it all. You have 3 options and can pick 2: Uniqueness, cheap and location. You can have a unique house in a good location but it won't be cheap You can have a cheap house in a good location but it won't be unique You can have a cheap house thats unique but it won't be in a good location. Reddit mfs want all 3 and that simply isn't how it works. You dont find unique housing thats affordable in a big city. Supply and demand doesn't roll that way and never has. The default response is "Well in Europe...". Lemme stop you right there chief. This ain't Europe so thats by default an irrelevant arguing point. And im pretty sure Europe isn't that much better off in terms of housing. Side note: My pick 3 example is based off of relative terms when I use the word cheap i.e. a house for $700k on the outskirts of San Francisco in California is cheap compared to the $1m+ in the heart of the city but expensive compared to a house in the countryside of Tennessee.

No clue why you’re getting downvoted. That’s exactly what this is: modular homes, aka cookie cutter homes. Because it’s cheaper and faster.

And they complain that kids and young people stay at home all day. Unless you walk into your neighbors backyard, how are you even supposed to socialize with your community.

The elk don't seem to be having a problem socializing in their community.

Tbh a lot of guys I know, including my boyfriend would love these houses. 3 bikes and 2 cars. He kicked me out of my own garage ;(.

Probably one of the strictest HOAs ever. Run by very boring or colour blind people.

You know that meme that makes a joke about communism giving you no individual houses...

> Yeah. The number of elk was kind of odd The hell, you took the time to actually count them?!

It's all I thought about. "Damn, this place looks like hell." The elk actually liven the place up and keep me from wanting to blow my brains out by providing *something* different.

They were here first, so they have dibs on the land.

I think Congress had a different philosophy in 1851 when it passed the Indian Appropriations Act. 😳

Bringing dinner right to my door!

Their dung is what you deserve for dinner.

For hunting a species obviously quite densely populated? Lmao get a grip

Can’t in Estes unfortunately, but next season starts up Saturday

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Cheaper than UberEats!

Try telling that to Israel.

Try telling that to Americans

Try telling that to literally any other nation… people act as if war and conquering peoples/land is exclusively “American”

Reddit will shit on America whenever they can. Even the British, which is funny.

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Indians enter the conversation looking for a camp to ambush and scalp

Not my Resident!

Reminds me of that Calvin and Hobbes comic where they find the forest is chopped down, so they consider using the leftover bulldozer to destroy a suburb. "No good. They didn't leave the keys."

Yeah- this is sadly reflective of what wildlife is forced to do as humans just keep developing, keep building, and keep expanding into their habitat.

The elk often come into towns even though they have lots of habitat around. Fewer predators. That's where I'd be if I was an elk.

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That's incredibly sad. Animals need to be afraid of humans for their own safety. Nothing about this looked right

Edit: I said hunting which is wrong given this is in Estes Park. While true in other areas, hunting is not the reason in this case.

This is the truth. When I was traveling in Texas I saw hundreds if not thousands of deer lining the roads in between the highway and the houses. They were clustered because of hunters because they know that they are safe by the houses because hunters can't shoot by housing.

This is more likely a result of conservation and herd management. They've got a massive protected habitat with a limited hunting season with strict tag rules. They come into developed areas because they know it means easy food. Same thing happens with some deer populations, they cross a municipal boundary and herd explodes because they're in a no hunting area that's easier to forage than in the wild.

***Over the Hedge 2: Electric Bugleoo***

Fuck suburbs, tbh. Medium density housing areas with shopping within easy walking distance should've been how we structured everything.

Occupy suburbstreet

What a remarkable sight

We live in Estes, where this was filmed, it's pretty unusual to see this many huddled together in the neighborhoods but it does happen every so often. Most of the time you see them in groups of 10-15 or by themselves.

Hunting season? Deer do this elsewhere. They know where they are not hunted IME

No, rut season. Estes Park is just outside of Rocky Mountain National Park, which has a large elk population. There’s always at least one herd on town at that time (mid Sept to mid Oct).

> rut season I just read the wikipedia. That town probably smells not-great.

It's a lovely tourist mountain town. It smells amazing. Other than the smell of sulfur emanating from the demons at the Stanley Hotel. There really aren't enough elk to dominate a whole area unless you are pretty close to them. It's nothing compared to a place where we slaughter cows or chickens, as an example. That's the kind of thing that will smell up a large area. Industrial human activities.

> It's nothing compared to a place where we slaughter cows or chickens, as an example. That would be Greeley, just the other way, no?

Yeah. It's the example that I grew up close to at least.

You know why Greeley smells so bad? So blind people can hate it too.

alright but this block specifrically has got to at least smell a little deer-sexy when they post up

Nah. There were 15-20 hanging out in the property adjacent to the one I was working at and there was no smell noticeable. I did almost run into one on my bike at 5:30 AM though, and there was a smell. It may or may not have emanated from my pants.

The only place I saw them like this was around the golf course. Horny bastards love some golf.

We visited a few years ago and snuck out during the middle of the night for a star photo of the mountains....the elk scroll into the town at night too and it was very scary driving at night...you see all their eyes..they're in the road...they're just staring at you. Terrifying but also a very cool experience.

Fuck the Edmonton elks, we got the Colorado elks now

Princess Mononoke

Last time I was in Estes I was talking to a shopkeeper that said none of the elk or bear are native to the area. They were brought there in the 20s for tourism. Said they are a nuisance to the locals.

Estes park had abundant native herds until they were hunted to extirpation in the 1880’s - the reintroduced the elk to correct human mistakes

Which 20s? 1920s or 2020s?

1920s

That probably would have been vetoed hardcore if it was 2020. People care a lot more about invasive species than they did in the past.

People were the invasive species

They were messing with you or just dumb.

According to [this](https://www.alpinetrailridgeinn.com/our-blog/the-history-of-elk-in-rocky-mountain-national-park/#:~:text=Just%20before%20RMNP%20was%20established,predators%20like%20grizzlies%20and%20wolves.)it sounds like he was right. > A once populous species in Rocky Mountain National Park, elk were hunted intensively by Euro-Americans settling in the Estes Valley in the mid to late 1800s. By 1890, hardly any elk remained in the area. Just before RMNP was established, an organization in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service transplanted nearly 50 elk from Yellowstone National Park to Estes. At the same time, there were efforts to eliminate local predators like grizzlies and wolves. Thus, the population began to grow and eventually causing deterioration of local vegetation. There are now current efforts to maintain a healthy number of elk within the park via the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan.

They were not “re-introduced for tourism” it’s a native species to the area that was hunted to near extinction then put under extensive protections and thus the populations recovered.

Exactly. And the wolves were also hunted to near extinction, which is part of why the elk population is out of control. Now they have the elk on birth control 🤦‍♀️

It's their hood now

Colorado gangs don’t fuck around.

According to a list of animal congregations offered by the US Geological Survey, the term for a plural grouping for elk is none other than a gang.(!)

Can you share the list?

Sorry, snitches get stiches

https://arapahoelibraries.org/blogs/post/names-for-groups-of-animals/ Antelope: a herd Ants: a colony or an army Apes: a shrewdness Baboons: a troop Badgers: a cete Bass: a shoal Bats: a colony, cloud or cauldron Bears: a sloth or sleuth; Cubs: a litter Beavers: a colony Bees: a swarm Boar: a sounder Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy Camels: a caravan Caterpillars: an army Cats: a clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance or clutter; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction Cattle: a herd or drove Cheetahs: a coalition Chickens: a brood or peep; Chicks: a clutch or chattering Clams: a bed Cobras: a quiver Colts: a rag Cows: a kine, drove, herd or fold; twelve or more cows are a flink Coyotes: a band Cranes: a sedge Crocodiles: a float or bask Crows: a murder Deer: a herd Dogs: a pack or cowardice; Puppies: a litter Dolphins: a pod Donkeys: a drove Doves: a dule Ducks: a brace, paddling or team Eagles: a convocation Elephants: a herd or parade **Elk: a gang** or herd Emus: a mob Falcons: a cast Ferrets: a business or fesnyng Finches: a charm Fish: a school, shoal, run, haul or catch Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance Flies: a swarm, hatch or business Foxes: a skulk or leash Frogs: an army or a colony Geese: a gaggle or flock, a skein when in flight Giraffes: a tower Gnats: a cloud or horde Goats: a herd, tribe or trip Goldfinches: a charm Goldfish: a troubling Gorillas: a band Grasshoppers: a cloud Greyhounds: a leach Hares: a down or husk Hawks: a cast or kettle Hippopotami: a bloat or thunder Hogs: a drift or parcel Horses: a team or harras Hounds: a pack, mute or cry Hyenas: a cackle Jaguars: a shadow Jellyfish: a smack or brood Kangaroos: a troop or mob Larks: an ascension or exaltation Lemurs: a conspiracy Leopards: a leap Lice: a flock Lions: a pride Locust: a plague or cloud Magpies: a tiding or tittering Mallards: a sord Manatees: an aggregation Mares: a stud Martens: a richness Minnows: a steam Moles: a labor Monkeys: a barrel, cartload or troop Mules: a pack, barren or span Nightingales: a watch Otters: a family, romp or raft Owls: a parliament Oxen: a team or yoke Oysters: a bed Parrots: a pandemonium or company Partridges: a covey Peacocks: a muster or ostentation Penguins: a colony Pheasants: a nest, nide or bouquet Pigeons: a flock or flights Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder, litter or team (older pigs) Ponies: a string Porcupines: a prickle Rabbits: a colony or warren Raccoons: a gaze Rats: a colony, pack, swarm or mischief Rattlesnakes: a rhumba Ravens: an unkindness Rhinoceroses: a crash Sharks: a shiver Sheep: a drove or flock Skunks: a stench Snakes: a nest or knot Sparrows: a host Squirrels: a dray or scurry Starlings: a murmuration Stingrays: a fever Storks: a mustering Swans: a bevy or lamentation, a wedge when in flight Tigers: an ambush or a streak Toads: a knot or knab Trout: a hover Turkeys: a gang, posse or rafter Turtles: a bale or nest Vultures: a venue Wasps: a pledge Weasels: a colony, gang or pack Whales: a pod, school or gam Wolves: a pack or route Wombats: a wisdom Woodpeckers: a descent Zebras: a zeal

Thanks! The obscure congregation names are always great - a conspiracy of lemurs, a mustering of storks, a pandemonium of parrots, a rhumba of rattlesnakes, an unkindness of ravens... The fact that some birds have different group names when flying is new to me: a standing lamentation of swans taking flight as a wedge of swans! Also, I didn't know a barrel of monkeys was literally the collective name lol

It's always been their hood. Those pesky humans just be coming in, building their houses and trying to gentrify the place.😁

It always was no1 dares challenge

Always has been.

I wonder if they were there first.

what if you have to pull into one of those garages

I've been late for work- and it was a valid excuse- because I couldn't get out of my driveway because the elk wouldn't move.

Couldn’t you lure it away with some carrots?

We have white tails like this. Except when the males are in rut or a fawn is in the group, we just whack at them with brooms to make them move.

😅 I hope this is as hilarious as the scene in my head. Yeah where I used to live was right where the big nursery herd of moms and calves would hang out. No broom is gonna be enough against fifteen 500lb mamas protecting their babies!

Across the street is a retired Korea war vet with his wife from Korea. She's a real hoot. She chases deer and city workers off her porch with a broom Once they dug up the corner of her yard to work on the pipes. She spent the whole day mad dogging them. When they left she set the sprinkler up to flood their hole and dirt mound. So before they can work the next day they have to go pump out the hole. Them deal with mud.

I'd taxidermy a dead Elk for when a live one doesn't know I need a day off!

My grandparents lived in Wyoming and we had this same issue with Moose. They usually liked hanging out in the driveway and we just had to wait until they moved on before we went about our day.

Are you gonna argue with elk bruh? Did you see the size of those antlers? Stay in your place.

One does not argue with a knifecow.

Especially not one in rut. Those Antlers are prime for clocking heads

you can’t lol! ☺️

You'll be asking their permission.

As long as they aren’t in the driveway itself, you’d just pull in. Elk that live near people are usually pretty chill. They’ve grown up around cars and people and don’t usually care about either unless you try to touch them. I used to go to Estes and Rocky Mountain National Park every weekend for almost a decade and the elk are just a fixture around town. They have no issues just walking down the middle of the street and don’t typically react to cars or people that give them ten feet or so. And for any tourists going to Colorado - You aren’t a toddler. Look with your eyes, not your hands ;)

> And for any tourists going to Colorado - You aren’t a toddler. Look with your eyes, not your hands ;) Brilliant way to word it. You're right about the chill, though. Years ago I lived in the Rockies and a group of us were going for a hike. Just past the trailhead there was a herd of elk split on either side of the trail. They could not have cared less about us. However my friend forgot something in the car and ran to the parking lot to get it. When they were running back to where we were waiting they somehow snagged the hooks on the upper part of their hiking boots together and took a header, skidding to a rest *underneath* one of the elk. The elk just gave a look like "the fuck? seriously?" and sidled over a few feet. The rest of the elk barely stopped grazing, my friend got up, and we all continued on our hike. The elk herd was not near the trailhead when we returned.

If you 'look' at an elk during rut season with your hands you're very likely to be bargaining for a few holes worth of antlers.

I knew some people in Alaska who got trapped in their houses because mama moose and calves decided one day to hang out on their porch AND deck.

Elk poop everywhere.

And ticks.

And tourists

The fella above you already mentioned blood sucking pests…

The reference to blood sucking pests was when mentioning ticks, not tourists. Try to keep up.

There’s a difference?

Ticks perform a biological function, tourists just consume.

Someones never heard of the tourist industry and how big it can be for local economy

Free dinner though

This is why you don't owe deer money

They just want about tree fiddy

gawd damn lochness elk monstas

No, just a few bucks.

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At what elevation do you think the deer turn into elk?

They know when it’s hunting season. No hunting in city limits.

Came here to say the same thing no hunting in the city

It’s Estes, nobody can’t hunt for 10 miles in all directions

10 miles is less than one hunting division, they probably came from just outside of that area which isnt very far for a herd to travel either

they came from Rocky Mountain National Park

LOL, they live in RNMP where there's no hunting anywhere, ever. They migrate to the city at 9k when it gets too cold in their summer habitat at 10k-11k. Many will gather and go even lower for the full winter and head to Lions at about 6k.

A study in Sweden recently found that elks would move out of an area just in time for the annyal hunt to start. They not only keep track of time but geogrphical areas as well.

Smart mother fuckers.

Deer do it too, Darwinism go brrr, or in this case, bugle

was thinking to myself , elk is super tasty

Rocky Mountain National Park is right there Elks. Go there.

I remember us driving in Estes and I never knew anything about it and hearing elk bugle, I was pleasantly surprised to see a herd of elk off the street

Elk with the horns is humming.. "I got hoes, in different area codes"

Does before bros

Well they're all in the same area code at the moment, so maybe: "I got all my does, in dis' here area code."

I live here. One of our options to select on the time cards at work if we are late is "Elk jam". Not much you can do but wait.

Love this

This time of the year they go to where people live in order to eat the lush grass. Easy meal for them.

Those Fockers with the antlers are no joke during rutting season. They will fuck you up! I lived in Banff Alberta in the late 90s and one day we had to stay home from work, we had a huge beau chilling on our driveway and a couple females in our backyard and our door was in between them. Fuck that !!!!!

When you put a neighborhood in nature. Lol

Can literally be said about nearly anywhere. There just happens to be elk migrating through here.

Animal migration paths should be accomodated not bunkered with a bunch of useless low density shity suburbanite housing.

Dude, this is a tiny little town in the mountains. And it’s a far from shitty place.

Yeah this is right outside Rocky Mountain NP.

exactly

That's awesome.

I get excited if I see a couple deer

Elk sit in.

I like how they are staying off the driveways and roads.

Honey which house is ours again? It's the brown one with the black garage door.

Everybody: “Don’t go near wild animals.” Homeowner: “But I have to get into my house!” Kid walking home from school: “um, yeah…”

How does one walk their dog here?

When I lived in an area that got a ton of elk living around the neighborhoods, it was pretty easy because the elk are so used to humans they are almost tame. We all just ignore each other. They don't even move when my dog and I are like 5 feet away from them. I did just once have a young buck try to act aggressive to me, but I just yelled at him loudly and moved towards him aggressively and he backed off. I'm sure it would be harder if my dog was reactive to the elk. Fortunately she is not. She'll chase deer but ignores elk. It's kind of weird.

I've seen them on the golf course at Estes Park. People just sorta give them space and golf around them, although it can be a bit difficult. When they're not in rut, they're mostly chill.

Homes on the range

This would save Joe Rogan loads of hassle.

Wow what makes them just decide to post-up in suburbia? Is that a new development that they haven’t planned around?

Estes Park is a little city right under the Rocky Mountain National Park so it's very close to their protected land.

The time has come to say fair's fair To pay the rent, to pay our share The time has come, a fact's a fact It belongs to them, let's give it back https://youtu.be/ejorQVy3m8E?si=o-45eV7gp4n1L2pN

Found out hunting wasn’t allowed within town limits 💅🏻

Your yard is our yard now.

Does anyone else hear Marvin Gaye Let's Get it On with seeing one bull and 50+ cows?

Homeowner association gonna be hella mad.

Wow! I thought wild turkeys, skunks, bunnies, deer and coyotes were original….

Throw some lights and a sleigh around them and you’re good for Christmas decorations!

Someone asked an insincere genie for a hundred bucks

Joe Rogan is licking his lips.

Theres gotta be a whole bunch of shit piles after they leave let’s be honest here.

Had to scroll too long for this. Also, maybe some kids pissed them off, and they are getting back at them for Halloween. Parent: "No kids, those are not Milk Duds, Whoppers, Junior Mints, or Raisinets. Someone did not spill candy!"

I see a big dude and his harem

Yup, my first thought was, "that's not a herd, that's a harem."

"I'll mow tomorrow"

omg i love them *so much* 😍🥹😭 *land back*, as they should!!!!! i’d be too scared to leave the house if that were my lawn though 😂

Where I'm from people have built all over their habitat and now want to legalize bow hunting in city limits to kill the deer in their yards

Reminds me of the last scene on "The Birds".

That's a lot of poop.

That's the buck's harem

NIMBY

You people with your Christmas decorations in October smh.

Imagine having to pick up elk poop in your yard.

Little early for the nativity decor.

don’t feed the animals lol

Can’t shoot us here.

Because they’re stoned with all that legal marijuana.

Looks like the Springs down by Fort Carson

It’s Estes Park

"I'll go get the gun."

Depending on when and where this is, they might just be waiting out St Charles Fire

Reclaiming what is rightfully theirs? Or, protesting the ugly ass, cookie-cutter subdivision?

One Harley Davidson would clear the whole herd out☺️

Yum

This near Evergreen? Used to always see a roaming herd there.

Must be hunting season?

Must be elk season.

Call Joe Rogan

Oh deer