Jack Horan, The News & Observer, 3 December 2015 – Newly arrived elk have found a welcoming home in the mountains and meadows of Western North Carolina in the past 15 years. The numbers and range of the animals have expanded from 52 pioneer elk released in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to an estimated 150-200 bulls and cows in the park, Cherokee tribal lands and private lands west of Asheville.


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