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The eastern elk (Cervus canadensis canadensis) is an extinct subspecies or distinct population of elk that inhabited the northern and eastern United States, and southern Canada. The last eastern elk was shot in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1877. [1] [2] The subspecies was declared extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1880. [3]
To bring the elk back to the region, conservationists needed to identify 100,000 acres of viable land for the eastern elk’s closely related cousin, the rocky mountain elk.
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The Elk Trail was developed in the 1990s as part of a tourism-oriented effort to increase awareness of the area's resident elk population. [6] That animal is native to central Pennsylvania but went locally extinct in the 1850s. Some individuals were imported by train from Yellowstone National Park in 1912 to reestablish a local population. That ...
A tract within the Elk State Forest at the northern edge of the wild area is known as Noble-Chambers Memorial Forest in their memory. [ 28 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Although Fergus reports entering a bunker in his 2002 book, [ 7 ] and Young describes a bunker's slit windows in his 2008 book, [ 48 ] as of 2010 the southern bunker was covered with earth ...
The Rocky Mountain elk subspecies was reintroduced by hunter-conservation organizations into the Appalachian region of the U.S. where the now extinct eastern elk once lived. [80] They were reintroduced to Pennsylvania beginning in 1913 and throughout the mid-20th Century, and now remain at a stable population of approximately 1,400 individuals.
The Dean Creek Wildlife Area (or Dean Creek Elk Viewing Area) is a wildlife management area located near Reedsport, Oregon, United States. Jointly managed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the United States Bureau of Land Management , it is the year-round residence for a herd of Roosevelt elk .
It is also found on parts of the Fundy coast in Maine and the Maritimes, the northern parts of this ecoregion where the summers are cool. The coniferous forest goes by many names, including: Boreal forest, fir-spruce forest, the North Woods, and the taiga. It is noted in New England for its "harsh" conditions such as cold, subarctic ...