– “I've never seen anything like this. And I've talked with other wildlife biologists who've seen large die-offs, and I've not run across anyone who has seen anything of this magnitude.”
– “It is probably really doubtful that hemorrhagic disease would be the cause because hemorrhagic disease is an infectious disease and would run a course through time before that many animals died and they wouldn’t die in such close proximity to each other”
- Kerry Mower, Wildlife Health Specialist, NM Dept. of Game and Fish
![Twenty miles north of Las Vegas, New Mexico (Google pointer), 113 to 120 elk were all found dead in less than one square mile on a private ranch, August 27, 2013. NM Dept. of Game and Fish investigated.](https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/LasVegasNMmap.jpg)
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