Not long after the last elk was killed in Pennsylvania, federal officials, worried about mushrooming elk herds in and around Yellowstone National Park, offered the animals to anyone willing to take them.
Successful elk populations have now been introduced in Arkansas (1991),[REF] Wisconsin (1995), Ontario (2001), Kentucky, Tennessee and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2002, the area known as Northern Michigan, the Missouri Ozarks (2011),[REF] and in 2012 Virginia [REF].