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https://dwr.virginia.gov/elk-cam/

About a half-dozen on right now, four bulls and a couple of cows. Two young bulls sparring. Heard a bugle.

Gotta be patient while the camera does its swings. Seems to stop in random spots, different ones going right to left than left to right. Pretty spot though, a lot bigger than the coverage on the PA and TN cameras.

Awesome pappy. Where is the camera located and where are the most elk in VA?

https://dwr.virginia.gov/blog/the-v...eaders-come-together-for-all-virginians/

Vansant, VA, a place I’m not familiar with. Appears to be a mountaintop, maybe reclaimed coal land.

Originally, elk wandered over from NC, then TN and KY, and now WV is getting in on it, as they all are jumbled together down there. VA had a limited draw for tags this year. KY has allowed hunting for a while now.

Learned this year that the last reported elk killed in VA was in Clarke County, just next door to the WV county I live in, in the 1850s IiRC.

The elk cam is on reclaimed strip mines near Vansant, Buchanan County. Elk were introduced into Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise Counties, I believe. All are coal mining country.

Yep, I'd read where reclaimed strip mines created some of the best habitat. Big expanses of grass for 'em that aren't agricultural.