I don't really wan't to get into this, but I just thought it would be
interesting to note that elk were native to most of this continent and
were found in the forests (gasp) of the Atlantic coast and eastern part
of the country when Europeans first came here.

Michael Dossett
Bothell
phainopepla at yahoo.com


--- Don Baccus <dhogaza at pacifier.com> wrote:
> At 05:12 PM 4/25/99 EDT, MBlanchrd at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Stepping gingerly into this fray.....I've been to
> Jackson Hole SPECIFICALLY
> >to see the elk, and yes, they do just fine in a
> plains environment.
> >And to add fuel to the fire....George Catlin, in
> the 1830s, wrote about
> >seeing thousands of elk amidst the bison herds in
> the middle of the Plains.
> >Ah......if only I had a time machine, to be able to
> go back and see
> >that..before human intervention...
>
> It would've been wonderful. However, I suspect one
> could've
> found elk in forested habitat, as well. It's the
> claim that
> elk didn't occupy forested habitat until the plains
> were
> destroyed (as wildlife habitat) that I'm
> challenging, not
> the well-known fact that large numbers of elk lived
> on the
> plains.
>
>
> - Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
> Nature photos, on-line guides, and other goodies
> at
> http://donb.photo.net
>

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