I am going to check on the elk again. I'm going up on Elk Mountain. We have talked before about the elk in West Virginia. In ...

But elk were once an Eastern animal, too, drifting through hardwood forests from Georgia to southern New England, till uncontrolled hunting and habitat destruction led to their extermination.

Elk, also called wapiti, used to graze throughout most of the country, but the Eastern Elk was driven to extinction through hunting and habitat loss soon after the arrival of European settlers.