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Bringing Back the Big Game: The Reintroduction of Elk to the Wichita Mountains (open access)

Bringing Back the Big Game: The Reintroduction of Elk to the Wichita Mountains

Article explores the circumstances surrounding the decision to move starving Rocky Mountain elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the Wichita Mountains National Forest and Game Preserve in southwestern Oklahoma in 1911, and the Progressive conservation ideals behind bringing the elk to Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Pearce, Matthew Allen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History