Southern Colorado Elk Hunting Season - Mirr Ranch Group

When I first moved back to Alaska and told my Dad there were elk at the conservation center, he was surprised— “there are no elk in Alaska!” Well… clearly there are, but he wasn’t entirely wrong. A subspecies of elk in Alaska can be traced back to the Pleistocene period! But today’s elk had to be reintroduced from the PNW, starting in 1929. Now, wild elk in Alaska reside exclusively on Afognak Island and Raspberry Island, but thanks to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, you don’t have to t

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