Program Reintroduces Elk to Far Southwest Virginia

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Shunned for years, Rocky Mountain elk are finally being welcomed back into the state by Virginia wildlife officials.

At a meeting Tuesday, the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries board directed the agency's staff to undertake a pilot restoration program that calls for stocking 75 elk into Buchanan County, a rugged, economically depressed county where officials have been hoping for years to establish an elk herd.

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Program Reintroduces Elk to Far Southwest Virginia

"It's wonderful," said Buchanan County Administrator W.J. Caudill, who earlier had urged the board to actively restore elk to his county in hopes they would attrac...

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