We live a quarter mile from the ocean, in a forested area, hundreds of acres of old growth spruce with some young alder where there was pasture 60 years ago. The house is a typical beach shack, all of us having tacked on rooms with little planning. We have a herd of roughly 40 elk that sometimes are all here, sometimes just a few, plus deer somewhere on the acre we of "stuff" we mow most of the time. It's often hard to work when deer come to my office window begging for me to hand out apple slices off the front deck, of elk are only a few feet from my desk. I'm attaching a photo of a doe breathing on the window to get my attention and a cow elk with a calf.