When Elk Come Down

★★★★★ · Good movie on elk conservation · westernwind · 2019-12-18

The previous reviewer didn't realize that this is only a partial transfer of the full two reels of this film. The movie ends with the poacher being caught after nearly shooting a warden, and then getting thrown in jail back in town. The full film is available from the National Archives. Also, this scan is at about 2/3rds speed, so what is shown at 14 minutes here is at about 10 minutes in the National Archives version. The tusk hunter poaching problem was mostly taken care of by the 1930s. At least in Wyoming, it was a felony to patch for elk tusks after 1907. So the action shown here is a…

★★★ · Bow chica bow bow · Spuzz · 2014-05-23

This movie can't figure out whether it's a documentary about Elk coming down from the higher elevations in Yellowstone when the winter hits, and the troubles with poachers, OR whether it's a film about said poachers and the park service trying to stop them. The drama is pretty shaky. We don't exactly know what happens to the poacher in the end. The documentary part is ok, a LOT of shots of.. elk feeding, but some good info about the problems of poaching and food supply and what the park does. Also, there's a great line in the drama about Park Rangers wanting to hump each other. No really.…