We’ll let Plus 1 do the honors. Announcing the MDC elk arrival video:

Enjoy. (Video courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.)

When they loaded elk in Kentucky, there were 39. When they got off the truck in Carter County, there were 40.

Story by Joe Jerek, photos courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.
CARTER COUNTY, MO. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) added 20 adult cow elk, 16 yearling cow elk, three yearling bull elk and one [...]

Welcome home to Missouri. Monday, May 6 RMEF volunteers and Missouri Department of conservation team members rolled out the red carpet, burlap that is for the arrival mid-May of the final installment of 35 elk from Kentucky. Our reward: a greeting by 21 of our current elk residents.

CARTER COUNTY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will close the refuge portion of Peck Ranch Conservation Area to turkey hunting to permit the third stage of the Department’s elk restoration projectHunters who normally hunt on the area’s wildlife refuge portion will need to make alternate plans for the 2013 spring turkey season. [...]

MDC photo passed along by Kathryn Thompson of Jacks Fork River on Facebook. She says an elk calf was found dead; something furry is in the left foreground.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has confirmed the presence of a mountain lion on the Department’s Peck Ranch Conservation Area in northwest Carter and eastern Shannon [...]

Heat, drought and other factors contributing to recent elk deaths
MDC has some answers from initial examinations but is awaiting additional test results.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is awaiting additional laboratory test results to help determine the causes of recent elk deaths, including six cow elk. One yearling bull elk was [...]

The most recent elk herd brought from Kentucky was split into two groups: the first of 33 was released on Peck Ranch. An additional 14 elk were released on part of The Nature Conservancy’s Lower Ozarks tract on June 21.
Missouri Conservation Commissioner Don Johnson got to do the honors of releasing the elk from [...]

By Jo Schaper
If Eminence Mayor Jim Anderson has his way, a life-sized elk statue will very soon grace the lawn of the Shannon County courthouse.
“Actually, one of our aldermen thought it would be a great idea. Since we are the closest large town to the elk, we’re trying [...]

This link to the Columbia Missourian was just passed through to us from the Missouri Department of Conservation:
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2012/06/22/us-department-agriculture-quits-funding-missouri-chronic-wasting-disease-efforts/
The heart of the story is here:
“The discoveries in Macon County came as the federal government was cutting $17 million in nationwide assistance used for compensating owners of infected captive deer herds killed in an effort [...]

This year’s crop of elk increased by 10 before even leaving the pen.
SUMMERSVILLE–Missouri’s free-ranging elk herd got a boost Tuesday, as the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) released 33 elk at Peck Ranch Conservation Area (CA) in Carter County. Another release of 13 elk is planned for Saturday on neighboring land in the elk-restoration zone.
In [...]