Vernal Express | 1979-01-18 | Page 23 | Elk to be Transplanted to Nevada

Elk to be transplanted to Nevada In the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will be 50 elk to The four spike bulls and 46 cows and calves will be moved from the Hardware Ranch in Cache Glen Chief of Game Management with Nevada Fish and is pleased with the He says that Nevada biologists have spent five years studying the release site on Table Mountain near Tonopah in central The U.S. Forest Service has authorized the Nevada has only one elk There were 20 elk permits issued for the Shell Range near Ely during Christensen indicated the proposed elk transplant will be of great value to the Silver Don Information Officer with the Northern says the Cache elk herd has grown the last few years even though many bulls are harvested each Last a record elk wintered at Hardware Paul points out that the Cache elk are themselves the descendants of transplanted Utah received 24 elk from Yellowstone Park in At the same 24 were also released east of Paul says the Cache elk was eliminated in the due to uncontrolled Utah has also been the recipient of transplants in recent Six Rocky Mountain goats were transplanted from Washington In There are now 33 In the And recently two shipments of desert bighorn sheep were transplanted from Nevada to Zion National