Hilda Mitchell stands with some herd paperwork at the front of the farm’s milking parlor at 2780 Aldergrove Rd., Ferndale. She and her husband, Kevin Dougherty, are building up toward a herd of 400 cows by spring. — Lynden Tribune | CALVIN BRATT

Elk have been successfully built up in numbers in the Nooksack herd whose habitat is the South Fork Nooksack and upper Skagit river areas. Limited hunts have been reinstituted in recent years. However, in winter the eld tend to come down into lowland fields and farms and cause damage, provoking problems in more populated areas. — Lynden Tribune | COURTESY PHOTO