Subject: Elk bull with cows at dawn, Cervus elaphus

Location: Knott County, Kentucky

Stock Number: 07-48493

Comments: Beginning in 1997, some 1500 elk were reintroduced to the species' former haunts in eastern Kentucky. The elk have thrived feeding on grasses at abdandoned strip mines, and today some 6500 elk live in the Bluegrass State.

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