Elk, Pa.’s largest wild animal, have become a tourism boom in the northwest part of the state
Once hunted to extinction, Pennsylvania’s resurgent elk herd now numbers 1,400. And people want to see them.
An elk bull crosses the road in Benezette Mar. 1, 2021. In 1913 the Pennsylvania Game Commission began importing elk from the mushrooming herds at Yellowstone National Park. Decades later the herd now numbers more than 1,400.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
