A Massive Herd of Elk

This is a simply astounding video of wildlife in Montana and the best part about it is that it happened only a few miles from here in Bozeman.

One Austin Stonnell was driving along Kagy Blvd. in the southeast part of town when he happened upon a huge elk herd crossing the road and got out his camera. Not only is the size of this herd astounding and beautiful to watch as the animals jump the fence one after another, but it has some drama at the end (don’t worry, it ends well).

The local paper had this Page 1 story yesterday where it was learned that the herd is typically visible from his house (we live on the north end of town, so, we don’t see anything like this) and the Associated Press picked up the story as well, for example here.

A couple hours ago the YouTube video had 1.3 million views, but now it’s up to 1.4 million and I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeane Moos has already done a report  on this for CNN. She was clearly captivated by the running bison in Yellowstone last week as seen here and would probably think that elk are one step closer to what might be her ultimate namesake goal.