I say trap 'em and turn 'em loose in downtown Little Rock.

From our Animals Are More Important Than People desk . . .

But some government agencies haven't appeared to be concerned with the principles of being a neighbor or looking after the health of the neighborhood.

We've listened to landowners complain for a decade that elk were destroying their gardens, trampling fences and eating crops. The complaints started on Gaither Mountain and have reverberated down the Buffalo River into Searcy County.

The landowners are powerless to confront or control their neighbors. Game & Fish authorities ban residents from shooting nuisance elk, regardless if the "game" animals are destroying their livelihood.