Two winters ago, a small herd of Manitoban elk -- distant cousins of the extinct Eastern elk that used to thrive here -- began grazing and browsing through the 800-square-mile range straddling the ...

Manitoban Elk in the Midwestern states and Canadian prairie provinces, and the now-extinct Eastern and Merriam’s Elk. The Idaho State Journal invites you to take part in the community conversation.

On late fall afternoons, particularly during the mating season known as the “rut,” members of a herd of Manitoban ... elk, the ones that once roamed the Southern Appalachians are now extinct.

The elk population on the East Coast was eradicated by hunting during the 1800s, according to the North Carolina Wildlife Commission. In 2001 and 2002, 52 Manitoban elk were reintroduced to the ...