Elk in Kentucky?
“Elk in Kentucky?”
They’ve sighted Elk in Tennessee.
I think there are some in the mountains of NC. Iirc, some governmental or conservation group are trying to re-establish them there.
It hasnt bitten any one, yet.
Wild boar in Congress?
We have Elk in Oklahoma....
Well, there’s an Elkton in Todd County, KY. Named for elk?
They were reintroduced into KY in 1997. KY now has the largest elk herd east of the Mississippi at around 11,000 elk.
Elk were originally native to the east, as were bison, including Kentucky... which was a very important and very disputed hunting ground. Unfortunately elk are delicious so they were hunted to extinction in most of their former range but have since been reintroduced. In western KY they were reintroduced to the Reelfoot lake region, where the lakes had been created by the sinking of the ground caused by the masive New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12.
More recently they nave been reintroduced to southern Missouri from stock obtained from Kentucky and I think they have already had their first hunt or are about to.