google earth

[sliverslinger]

Have you guys ever seen elk when looking at the areas in the satellite view? I think I found some in one of the pics. I will try to find them again.

[Got Fish?]

I've looked but never have found anything that would be for sure elk. Get the coordinates, that would be cool. That google earth is a great tool for hunters and fishers.

[elkhuntr28]

I don't know if you could see elk. I have a pretty open pasture and only know my horses are horses because I know where they tend to stand in the pasture. It would be cool though.

I feel in the next few years clarity will become greater and we may even be able to look real time vs. undated pictures. That may be a hurdle though due to potential abuses of real time data by unfriendlies.

[dla]

You might be able to make out an Elk with some of the newer pictures. I've noticed GE uses pictures of varying quality across Oregon. I know that I can see my car in the driveway, so I think I could see an Elk in the newer images. I don't know how often GE updates their image database, but I do know that some of my favorite haunts in Idaho don't show the fires from 2006-2007.

[Jeremy]

Here are some elephants 45.5084° -122.711°, another one here 32.7372° -117.15° although you cant really tell its an elephant without looking at the shadow, even those are hard to see, you wold have to have some pretty good lighting to see elk especially since they will most likely be matching there background color a little more. Dates for all images can be found by turning on the Spot Image or Digital Golbe covearge layer. I have 1/2 meter resolution imagery people show up pretty good in that so i assume elk would also but its not in google earth.

Oh wait i just found some elk, i cheated though enjoy: 38.198° -122.023°

[Bait Bucket]

You can see critters with the pay-to-use version.

[Chesapeake]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Here are some elephants 45.5084° -122.711°, another one here 32.7372° -117.15° although you cant really tell its an elephant without looking at the shadow, even those are hard to see, you wold have to have some pretty good lighting to see elk especially since they will most likely be matching there background color a little more. Dates for all images can be found by turning on the Spot Image or Digital Golbe covearge layer. I have 1/2 meter resolution imagery people show up pretty good in that so i assume elk would also but its not in google earth.

Oh wait i just found some elk, i cheated though enjoy: 38.198° -122.023°

I was thinking. Look at the zoo. I'm guessing thats where you looked.

What is that place? Some kind of refuge for Tule elk?

[baltz526]

i can see my wall tent in a picture in idaho. pretty cool!

[Ni!]

Some biologists in Germany just did a survey of red deer and roe deer using Google Earth photos. You can read about it here.

According to them, they stand facing north most of the time due to (they hypothesize) the earth's magnetic field. I can't say I've noticed the same thing in our own deer and elk, but I also wasn't really looking for it.

[canes_venatici]

There is an elk ranch in Sisters Oregon. I've seen the elk out there on GE. Do a search for:
44 17 4.91, -121 34 8.91

and it will take you there. There are quite a few elk in the fields.

[stlhdrgrn]

I havn't seen any elk but some elk wallows show up.
What ever happened to finding them on 7.5 minute Topos

[canes_venatici]

I think i may have found a White tail Deer in Missouri. PM me with an email addy and I'll send you the KMZ file. Let me know what you think.

[salmonslayer204]

Man, google earth is great. I think I once found an elk in the mudflow up by Mt. St. Helens

[blacktail hunter]

thats to cool

[canes_venatici]

I've been combing Yellowstone NP for animals... there are a few to be seen

The other good bet would be Naches, WA

[Opportunist]

I found an elk in a small meadow in the Murderers creek unit with google earth. The satelite view has since been updated and the elk is gone which confirmed what it was, I was never really sure until the update.