JEANIE'S JOURNAL

I visited Elk County, Pennsylvania for a couple of days and, yes, there are elk in Elk County.  I wasn't able to get a good pic of one with antlers but maybe in the fall.  Today I will submit the best elk photos.  They are shedding their winter coats so look a bit moth-eaten.  Later, I will upload some of the spectacular scenery there.  

Thought I'd give you a little of the history of the elk in Pennsylvania.  Elk once roamed throughout Pennsylvania, but settlements and hunting destroyed the herds.  By 1867, elk had been completely eliminated from the state.  The Pennsylvania Game Commission introduced 167 Rocky Mountain Elk and some from a private reserve in Monroe County, PA  into the state from 1913 through 1926, and released them in central and north-eastern Pennsylvania.  Only the north-central releases were successful.  The herd now numbers 800.