MORTON, Wash. — Pat Miller surveyed a table covered with oozing elk hearts, kidneys and other organs. He pointed out globs of white fat on some of the specimens. “Your cardiologist doesn’t ...

MORTON, Wash. — Pat Miller surveyed a table covered with oozing elk hearts, kidneys and other organs. He pointed out globs of white fat on some of the specimens. Biologists, volunteers scour ...

Pat Miller surveyed a table covered with oozing elk hearts, kidneys and other organs. He pointed out globs of white fat on some of the specimens. “Your cardiologist doesn’t want to see a lot ...

MORTON, Wash. — Pat Miller surveyed a table covered with oozing elk hearts, kidneys and other organs. He pointed out globs of white fat on some of the specimens. “Your cardiologist doesn’t ...

Tom Cooley, a biologist in the DNR’s Wildlife Disease Lab in East Lansing, performs necropsies on a few whole elk each year and inspects heads and organs of road-killed animals. “The herd as a ...

MORTON, Wash. — Pat Miller surveyed a table covered with oozing elk hearts, kidneys and other organs. He pointed out globs of white fat on some of the specimens. “Your cardiologist doesn’t ...

Cutting apart elk organs and measuring their fat content is one way biologists continue to measure the health of the Mount St. Helens elk herd.