Daily Postcard: Elk captured on video walking through snow Jan. 24 at Bandelier National Monument as the eyes of other elk peer through the darkness in the background. Elk are one of three ungulate species that occupy Bandelier. The elk that occupied the Jemez Mountains were locally extirpated in the early 1900s due to hunting, livestock grazing and introduction of diseases from domestic livestock, but have since been reintroduced by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. Courtesy/NPS