Elk Herd Wears Tracking Colors

Biologists have put tracking collars on each of the 24 elk recently released in West Virginia. The Gazette-Mail reports the collars can be tracked by satellites using global positioning system transmitters while workers on the ground use radio transmitters to follow the elk’s progress. The elk were relocated to West Virginia from Kentucky recently, and it’s the first time elk have roamed in West Virginia in 141 years. State officials are concerned some of the small herd might be killed by cars if they wander too far from the mountain tops.