Where are they actively managing them?
Where are they actively managing them?
They have, for better or worse, become a tourist draw in Maggie Valley/Cherokee area.
I was raised in the area that is now the 28904 zip code for a little over 60 years on 1100 acres. I now live on a little over what is left of that farm, just shy of 220 acres. I think I have a pretty good feeling for how most of the folks feel for them up here. Honestly if they put them on game lands I would suspect the herd would decline rapidly. Something CRC doesn't have a concept of.
Yes, in fact almost out of the zip to the west.
(emphasis mine)Because most tracts of land owned by western North Carolina landowners were relatively small compared to what is needed to support a huntable herd of elk and that the majorities of landowners of parcels > 15 acres in each geographic region indicated they were unlikely to allow people other than their families or immediate household to hunt on their properties, finding lands in western North Carolina that could support a huntable herd of elk herd will be extremely challenging.
(emphasis mine)Considering all responses, a huntable herd of elk would most likely be supported and accessible to hunters if established on public land.