[at-l] Elk is latest re-introduction to the Smokies

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Elk is latest re-introduction to the Smokies

By Carson Brewer, special to GoSmokies.com

If Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have their way, elk 
will be living in the Smokies again by this time next year.

Kim Delozier, a park senior wildlife management specialist has been 
working about two years on the proposal to reestablish elk as one of the 
species that inhabit the park.

He said the park will propose releasing 25 to 30 elk at low-altitude 
sites. One site is the extensive area along Parsons Branch Road, in 
Tennessee. The other is the remote Cataloochee area, in North Carolina. 
The release would come early next year, in late winter or spring.

This would be the first time for elk to live in East Tennessee since 
hunters killed the last of the original population in the middle 1800s.

Read the rest on the GoSmokies web site.
http://www.gosmokies.com/yarnspinners/carsonbrewer/2000/cb04012000.html

Wildbill
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