The kits are dark gray in color at the time of birth, but grow a new coat within a month. The Pennsylvania Game Commission published a half-hour documentary on YouTube, below, about the history of elk in the state. Red Foxes mate in the winter and the female fox gives birth to a litter of 2-12 kits in the spring. Today's elk hunt runs in three time frames between mid-September and early January. From the 1930s until the '80s, it was illegal to hunt elk in Pennsylvania, though many hunters still targeted them and cut into the species' population growth.Ī limited lottery system for hunting elk was later established by the game commission in an effort to protect the animal. Many train shipments of elk came from Wyoming to Pennsylvania in the ensuing years, according to the game commission's historical account of the species' Pennsylvania resettlement. Agricultural expansion in the west was depleting the elk's feeding grounds, leading to starvation among herds, and the federal government wanted to repopulate the species throughout the U.S. by 1867, but in 1913, the game commission began repopulating the state by purchasing elk from Yellowstone National Park. The species became depleted in the northeastern U.S. “Elk are magnificent animals and the spectacle of their bugling season draws onlookers to the elk range each year, sometimes from hundreds of miles away,” said the game commission's executive director Bryan Burhans.īefore humans settled in Pennsylvania, elk lived throughout the state with concentrations in the north and the Pocono Mountains. Live Elk Cam Hatfield Knob North Cumberland WMA Site Directions: To Royal Blue Unit: Take I-75 to exit 141. HDOnTap also compiles livestream highlights that can be viewed on the Elk Cam site. We are a Pennsylvania based 501(c)(3) non-profit wildlife conservation organization that operates/manages the Elk Country Visitor Center and the surrounding. The best time to catch elk on the livestream is in the late afternoon. The elk camera typically remains live until the end of bugling season in mid-October. Bugling season, when males start to display more aggressive mating competition, runs from late summer into fall males are known for their deep grunts and whistle-like calls to attract females, known as cows, and to fend off other males. 200-acre wildfire rages in South Jersey's Wharton State ForestĮlk are among the largest species in the deer family and have a population of about 1,400 in Pennsylvania.Joe's acquires 12-acre property, expands campus along City Avenue Philadelphia Zoo adopts two orphaned puma cubs.The livestream is hosted by HDOnTap, the same video platform that carries seasonal feeds of other wildlife, including eagles and black bears. The camera is located in a field in Benezette, Elk County, which is in the northern part of the state. The Pennsylvania Game Commission's popular Elk Cam is up and running again to give viewers a peek into the species' annual mating season.
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