Elk hunting opens with full legal authority in Missouri for the first time in more than a century. For decades, elk populations dwindled in the state, disappearing entirely according to most by 1865, according to a Missouri Department of Conservation history. This photo shows an elk at Peck Ranch Conservation Area in Fremont.
Photo credit: Missouri Department of Conservation. https://mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species/elk
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