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Elk Viewing - at Mount St. Helens
ELK VIEWING at Mt. St. Helens
Elk - Mt. St. Helens

This photo was taken on Jan 2, 2006
off the deck at
Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor
Center
.   Shot was taken by with a
digital camera by Jamie Westervelt
through one of the Center's Mount St.
Helens view telescope's.  

The magnificent Elk are seen
throughout the Mount St. Helens
monument and a hundred or more
can usually be seen on the Mt. St.
Helens Helicopter Tours departing
from Hoffstadt Bluffs.

The BEST VIEWING AREA is from the
Mount St. Helens Forest Learning
Center at milepost 33.  In the spring
up to 500 elk can be seen grazing on
the mudflow below the center.  The
Center is a partnership between
Weyerhaeuser, Washington
Department of Transportation, and
the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Actual digital camera photo through Hoffstadt Bluffs Telescope