PENNSYLVANIA 100 hunters get licenses to shoot elk

HARRISBURG (AP) -- Ninety-one Pennsylvania hunters and nine from out of state were awarded elk hunting licenses in a Pennsylvania Game Commission lottery.
More than 26,500 people submitted applications for the right to hunt a total of 20 antlered and 80 antlerless elk out of an estimated 700 in the state's herd during the Nov. 10-15 hunt.
Applications were received from all 67 Pennsylvania counties, 48 states and Canada.
Each hunter will be assigned to one of 11 management areas in the 835-square mile hunting grounds in portions of Cameron, Clinton, Centre, Clearfield and Elk counties.
The hunt is the third since the state revived them after a 70-year hiatus.
Elk once were common in Pennsylvania, but overhunting wiped out the herds by the 1870s. In 1913, the state imported elk from Wyoming and South Dakota to rebuild the herds, and hunting for antlered elk resumed in 1923. Before 2001, the state's last legal elk hunt was held in 1931.