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Elk spur a tourism boom in northwestern Pennsylvania by JASON NARK, Updated: March 13, 2021 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In rural Elk County, a mile from the $12 million Elk Country Visitor Center, a small herd of elk munched grass beside a new coffee shop called Elk Life. They were mostly females, known as cows, with a lone young bull nearby that sported two thin antlers called spikes. Some elk sat. Some stood. All were massive, some three times the size of whitetail deer, and none cared about the car idling a few feet away. Inside the store, a former Catholic church that features a large ...
By JASON NARK | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Published: March 11, 2021 In rural Elk County, a mile from from the $12 million Elk Country Visitors Center, a small herd of elk munched grass beside a new coffee shop called Elk Life. They were mostly females, known as cows, with a lone, young bull nearby that sported two thin antlers called spikes. Some elk sat. Some stood. All of them were massive, some three times the size of whitetail deer, and none cared about the car idling a few feet away. Inside the store, a former Catholic church that features a large painting of a bespectacled elk on it...
Elk, Pa.’s largest wild animal, have become a tourism boom in the northwest part of the state Jason Nark, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TOM GRALISH/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS An elk warning traffic sign outside Benezette March 2, 2021. BENEZETTE, PA. — In rural Elk County, a mile from from the $12 million Elk Country Visitors Center, a small herd of elk munched grass beside a new coffee shop called Elk Life. They were mostly females, known as cows, with a lone, young bull nearby that sported two thin antlers called spikes. Some elk sat. Some stood. All of them were mas...