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Pennsylvania’s limited permit elk season will end with the Dec. 30-Jan. 6 hunt. Forty-six hunters (17 antlered and 29 antlerless) will try for an elk during the late season.
The elk (pl.: elk or elks; Cervus canadensis) or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.
72 Rocky Mountain elk were introduced into Pennsylvania in 1913, replacing the extinct eastern elk. Introductions continued for several decades, but legal and illegal hunting from the 1930s to the 1970s kept the state's population between 24 and 70 individuals.
Quehanna Wild Area (/ k w ə ˈ h æ n ə /) is a wildlife area within parts of Cameron, Clearfield and Elk counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania; with a total area of 50,000 acres (78 sq mi; 202 km 2), it covers parts of Elk and Moshannon State Forests.
All elk licenses will be awarded by lottery on July 27 at the Elk Expo held at the Elk Country Visitor Center and each application for the three seasons costs $11.97. Hunters can enter all three ...
Sep. 17—Scientists at Washington State University's Elk Hoof Disease Research team have discovered healthy elk can contract the debilitating ailment by contact with contaminated soil. The ...
The National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming asserts that the intensity of the winter feeding program affects the spread of brucellosis more than the population size of elk and bison. [58] Since concentrating animals around food plots accelerates spread of the disease, management strategies to reduce herd density and increase dispersion could ...
Unlike mad cow disease, where cattle are often infected in closer quarters, the disease has stumped scientists for most of its existence as deer, elk and moose — members of the cervid family ...