Pennsylvania Elk: Reclaiming the Alleghenies (c) 1999

[@jeffcox2446]

I'm so proud of the PGC you folks have done a great job with the elk herd I enjoy getting up there to view them keep up the good work

[@garydungelman6530]

Common sense is no longer common

[@anotherdavidc]

There is debate on the breakdown of subspecies of American elk. Most elk have similar coat, antlers, smell, and bugling. Dr. Guest has a good argument grouping these as one elk subspecies Wapiti found in North America and in Siberia and Central Asia (mountain ranges in Mongolia and adjacent Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Southern Siberia). Their habitat in Asia is more similar to that of elk in Rocky Mountains. There is smaller more red deer-like Manchurian wapiti adapted to mixed hardwood forests of Manchuria, Korea, and Ussuri Region of Siberia. There is also a debate on this "red deer species" being broken down into European red deer, lowland desert riparian corridor red deer (Bactrian deer, Yarkand deer), Himalayan highland deer (Kashmir stag, Shou/Tibetan deer, McNeill's deer), and wapitis (Wapiti, Manchurian wapiti).

[@naedrentsek895]

There should be a rack stipulation for the hunt. A must have 4 brow tines to be legal.

[@johnblackie646]

Another awesome informitive video, I travel several times a year to elk country to see the elk and surrounding areas I love it up there and it's a dream of mine to get drawn for a elk tag bull or cow it would be a true honor to be able to hunt a Pennsylvania elk, thanks for sharing your videos.

[@MrKen-longrangegrdhogeliminato]

Please turn your volume up!

[@fudgesickle352]

Is it just me or was that elk sticking out his tongue at the person that took his picture?

[@buffalorick5598]

I hope they expand into NY and Adirondacks

[@kellyyyanneee]

Time to reintroduce the wolves. They’ll be here from the west in the near future as the travel this direction for more land and food.

[@keiththomas3141]

Nah ... Won't work up there. Mountain Lions could live there. You need massive roadless tracks of land for wolves. There are large coyotes all over Pennsylvania. Where I live has wolves but I can drive 100 miles where there is nothing. Not even a gas station. I've hiked and fished in the most remote areas of PA, and it can't support wolves. But it can mountain lions.

[@omichaelnato5388]

@@keiththomas3141 where do you live now ? Also where is the most remote in PA would you say ? Quehanna wild area ?

[@anotherdavidc]

The Alleghenies plateau forests of West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Western New York have dreary weather similar to the Pacific Northwest. The similarities are days of precipitation and cloudy days. The differences are humidity, temperature extremes, and much more snow.

[@buffalorick5598]

What would be wrong with helping the Elk during the tough winter months. ? I mean giving them safe feed that a cattle or deer would eat like cracked corn? Put it in area away from homes?

[@Rytoast99]

That would not make it a preserved species. The goal is to establish the species and for them to establish a natural and healthy population within an ecosystem they historically were apart of

[@IllumTheMessage]

cool

[@anotherdavidc]

These forests are like the old growth/temperate rainforests of the East Coast.

[@sagrieff]

Would be nice if the herd would expand to the northwestern counties of Pennsylvania and would be preferred over expanding to the eastern counties..

[@naedrentsek895]

Yes I agree! Ive spotted 1 near Red Bridge on 321 and had a cow come through my land last fall in Tiona. I hope they proliferate in the area.