Kentucky’s elk restoration zone spans 16 counties in the far eastern half of the state encompassing 4.3 million acres. Current counties in the zone include Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd ...

“And there is no other habitat in Kentucky that would sustain that kind of grazing pressure other than the reclaimed surface mine land.” The 16-county elk zone includes about 4 million acre ...

Once nonexistent in the Bluegrass, elk populations are now in the tens of thousands, thanks to an aggressive plan to reintroduce the once-native species.Prior to European settlement, elk were the ...

Game officials have designated a 16-county swath of Eastern Kentucky as the elk management zone. “We have a great thing going with our elk herd and we want to make sure that great thing ...

McCreary County is part of a 16-county elk zone in southeastern Kentucky where elk hunting is prohibited. The department said biologists recognized the elk, saying it was among more than 40 elk ...

One of the places you can find elk now? Kentucky. This year marks the 25th anniversary of elk restoration in the commonwealth. Since the late 1990s, other states also have begun reintroducing elk ...

The animals’ home: reclaimed coal mines. An elk on Boone’s Ridge in Pineville, Ky., an area that used to be rife with strip mines and is now seeing the return of its elk population.Credit ...

This year, the Kentucky department divided the 16-county elk restoration zone into six Elk Hunting Units (EHUs), hoping to spread out hunting pressure and provide hunters with a high chance of ...

Kentucky's elk herd has grown to be the largest herd east of the Rockies.So how did the herd get so large? From 1997 to 2002, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources translocated ...