country roads RoadS countRy Elk Slated to Return to West Virginia An agreement signed in September between the Kentucky Department of Natural Resources and the West Virginia DNR was to have enabled about 20 elk from Kentucky to be placed in West Virginia's Tomblin Wildlife Management Area by mid-December 2016 (about the time this magazine went to press). The animals, of both genders and varied ages would mark the first elk in the Mountain State since 1875, 20 BlueRidgeCountry.com Kentucky elk such as these are being relocated to West Virginia toward establishing a herd there. www.kentuckytourism.com when the state's last e l k was killed, near the headwaters of the Elk River. The restoration effort, called "one of the largest conservation efforts in my 30-years with this agency," by Paul Johansen, wildlife chief for the WVDNR, projects that up to 150 elk will be released in West Virginia by 2019, with the hope that they thrive in the southwestern counties of Logan, McDowMorehttp://www.kentuckytourism.com http://www.BlueRidgeCountry.com