unusual Elk sighting in Kansas

[guzzijohn]

These shots were taken inside the Hays city limits on November 15th.

[Big Nasty]

I bet money it got loose from a farm...

[Slowhanddd]

That was my thinking too.Real nice elk too.There's a guy that raises elk out around Maize.They get out every now and then.One of my son's is a cop in Colwich and had to help round them up last summer.Slow

[kansasj]

A friend of mine caught a elk on his trail cam a few weeks ago in Marion county.  There are two elk farms not too far away plus it might have been a satellite elk from Ft. Riley. 

[Big Nasty]

It has to be from Ft Riley or a farm. Elk just don't do well in KS, if they did we would have them everywhere. That's not to say they couldn't adapt but who knows maybe we are on our way to a new way of hunting.

[jwardiii]

Elk might not do well in Kansas now, but they were sure as heck here back in the old days. There are many accounts from the frontier days of elk being hunted/shot across Kansas. In those days they were just another plains animal.

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[jnovotny]

The wild herds in Kansas are getting larger and will continue to expand thier territory. Yes elk were very much a part of the Kansas landscape at the turn of the century.

[BMoeller]

I remember reading that a herd of elk come into the grasslands in the southwest corner out of colorado or new mexico from time to time.