In 1907 he was gored by a wild elk while on the private game preserve of Percy Raymond Greist.
Most of these parasites seldom lead to significant mortality among wild or captive elk.
Domestic elk mating with wild elk would pass on their genes.
The elk foundation, a group based in Montana, has campaigned to return wild elk to rural areas where they once roamed.
Thousands of tourists trek annually to Benezette, a township of 220 in central Pennsylvania, to see the wild elk.
There are more than 250,000 wild elk and 550,000 deer in Colorado.
In 1990, feasibility studies were conducted to determine if wild, free-ranging elk still had a place in some of their former eastern haunts.
How did you turn aside a herd of wild elk?
A tractor engine roars to life along Muddy Creek, and for several hundred wild elk it is a dinner bell.
It is one of the few places east of the Mississippi River that allows hunting of wild elk.
