Brucellosis is a disease that causes cow elk to abort their young. After drawing blood from 41 cow elk at the Hardware Wildlife Management Area recently, we have good news to report — none of the elk had the disease. 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of moving elk through the elk-handling facility at Hardware. Since 1952, more than 10,000 elk have been tagged and released. In addition to drawing blood and giving the cow elk a health checkup, we also placed radio collars on 50 calf elk — 25 males a