Source: CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS, 5/25/22


Editor’s note: This article is part 3 of the five-part in-depth series Fraught Forests from Carolina Public Press, which examines the challenges of climate change for Western North Carolina’s mountain forests. 

On late fall afternoons, particularly during the mating season known as the “rut,” members of a herd of Manitoban elk reestablished in Great Smoky Mountains National Park assemble and graze in the fields of the park’s scenic Cataloochee Valley. 

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