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Utah wildlife officials secretly culled 170 elk from LDS Church ranch land

Public hunters were not invited to hunt the excess elk on the Deseret Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit in northern Utah.

(Utah Division of Wildlife Resources) A view of the Deseret Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit, on land owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. State officials culled 170 excess elk on the unit earlier this year, in what may be the largest-ever such project in the state.