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By Jim Low
VAN BUREN, Mo – Missouri’s elk herd doubled in size today (May 19) with the arrival of the Show-Me State’s second batch of wild elk from Kentucky. A tractor-trailer truck carrying 22 mature cows, three one-year-old cows, three two-year-old bulls, six one-year-old bulls and one newborn bull arrived at the Missouri [...]

ShareJEFFERSON CITY, Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will soon add 35 wild elk to the Show-Me state’s recently restored herd at Peck Ranch Conservation Area. Peck Ranch is part of a 221,000-acre elk-restoration zone that covers parts of Shannon, Carter and Reynolds counties
The elk are scheduled to arrive at the refuge area [...]

ShareSUMMERSVILLE—Hunters who customarily use the refuge area at Peck Ranch Conservation Area (CA) will need to make alternate plans again this year, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC).
MDC closed the refuge portion of Peck Ranch CA to public access, including spring turkey hunting, in 2011. The closure was designed to prevent possible disturbance [...]

ShareElk restoration enters second year
Lessons learned in 2011 make this year’s work more productive.
JEFFERSON CITY–Missouri’s elk herd is growing on two fronts, and conservation officials express optimism that the second year of restoration work will benefit from experience gained in 2011.
Efforts to bring elk back to Missouri after a 150-year absence began in October 2010, [...]

SharePeck Ranch is open sunrise to sunset seven days a week except during managed deer hunts, firearms deer season and when the roads are closed due to flooding, snow, or other weather related events.
Since fall is when elk rut occurs, people who have never ventured onto Peck Ranch may want to go this fall.
The Missouri [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
On Labor Day, Eugene and I spent an overnight in Eminence. At the suggestion of our host Jim Anderson we drove to Winona, to check out the elk on Peck Ranch.
Just three-quarters of a mile north of U.S. 60 on Hwy. P, at 11 a.m. in the late morning, we rounded [...]

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WINONA—Sometimes words simply fail. Missouri Conservation Commission Chairman Becky Plattner was struck speechless this morning as she stood in the blue dawn light atop a remote ridge in Carter County. She was listening to sharp snorts and muted barks coming from a stock trailer holding 34 elk. Overwhelmed by emotion after opening [...]

ShareThis just in via phone from Jim Low, news writer with the Missouri Department of Conservation. The 34 elk, whose inconclusive health tests prevented their shipment from Kentucky to Missouri on Saturday, have been retested and cleared for transport.
“We have communicated from the beginning that we would bring elk to Missouri only if they were [...]

ShareJust exactly what I was doing on the 6th platform of the eight platform Stegall Mountain fire tower, with one hand death-gripping the railing and the other one trying to hold my camera steady had nothing whatsoever and everything to do with elk
Text and photos (except indicated) by Jo Schaper
I don’t like heights. There [...]