Only bulls in the Clam Lake herd are legal.
There are two seasons: about a month from mid-October to mid-November, and then for nine days in the middle of December. Season: Wisconsin’s first modern elk hunt took place in 2018. After an initial drop in numbers (to be expected), the Black River herd was up to 79 animals before the 2020 calving season. In 20, 73 elk from Kentucky were released in central Wisconsin’s Black River State Forest to try and begin a herd there as well. Other introductions (including elk from Kentucky most recently) ensued, new calves helped the herd, and as of December 2019 the Clam Lake herd was approaching 300 elk. It wasn’t until 1995 that bugles again resonated in the Badger State, when 25 elk were captured in Michigan and reintroduced into the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest near Clam Lake in northwestern Wisconsin. By the 1880s, habitat loss and overhunting had eliminated all the elk. In pre-settlement times, elk roamed much of the state, including the prairies and savannas of Wisconsin’s southern and western reaches. Harvest: About a dozen elk are shot each year in Tennessee.įor more information go to the TWRA elk page. Hunters in certain areas outside of the core elk zone may tale an elk during an open deer season.ĭraw: Only residents can apply for a Tennessee elk hunt, with an application period running from mid-June to mid-July annually. Season: Tennessee holds an archery hunt (seven days) beginning the last Saturday in September, an any-method hunt (rifle, muzzleloader, or archery) beginning the second Saturday in October. After 140 years without elk hunting, a quota draw was held in 2009 and Tennessee had its first modern hunting season. Tennessee works to keep the elk in this zone to avoid the animals pioneering farmland and raiding crops. Releases of over 200 total elk occurred from 2001 through 2008 in the 670,000-acre elk restoration zone in Scott, Morgan, Anderson, Campbell, and Claiborne counties. With a swath of suitable habitat beckoning and other states having elk restoration success, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and RMEF got busy and began restorations with elk from Alberta. The last native eastern elk in Tennessee was killed in Obion County in 1865. Elk in Tennessee An elk walks through a pasture in the Smoky Mountains.
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