SEQUIM — Tracy Blume can smell the elk from her bedroom on Happy Valley Road.
They saunter through her yard just about every night, though motion-sensitive sprinklers that emit a loud noise that sometimes scares them off.
But often, Blume says, the animals act all too tame, and “just look at you.”
Blume’s husband Roger uses stronger words.
“They are like tanks,” he said of Sequim’s iconic creatures.
“They leave huge destruction in their wake. . . . and they are not a wild herd,” anymore.
The Blumes were among about 40 Sequim area residents who attended Wednesday night’s elk-fence forum.
The session was hosted by the herd’s co-managers, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe.
