Group hopes to reintroduce elk to W.Va.

WV Metro News is reporting that a group of West Virginians that recently gathered at Chief Logan State Park are hoping to reintroduce elk to the state. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has pledged its support to the project and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR) is also supportive of the idea, "provided the elk are put in a place where the public will have long standing or permanent access to them."

A elk feasibility study, conducted in 2002, identified two areas of the state that would make suitable habitats for the elk, according to a Gazette Mail article from June of this year.