SEQUIM — People talk to Shelly Ament about love, not danger.
Ament, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist, serves on the Dungeness Elk Working Team.
Her neighbors know that.
They know, too, about the team’s discussion of relocating Sequim’s resident herd of Roosevelt elk to the Snow Creek area near Discovery Bay in Jefferson County.
And they’re not bashful about offering opinions on the plan.
“When I go to the health club or the store, there’s always a very negative reaction to moving the elk,” Ament said.
The working team convened Thursday at Carrie Blake Park’s Guy Cole Center to tackle a tough nut: How to sell the public on relocation.
Team members — state, county, tribal and city officials, other elk experts and local residents — plan a public information meeting in late August.
That will be shortly before the herd’s co-managers, the state Fish and Wildlife Department and the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, take a funding request to the governor’s office.
