In the winter of 1997, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources began to re-stock elk in the state's eastern counties, which had been extinct from the area for over 150 years.
Im Winter 1997 begann das Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources mit der erneuten Aussiedlung von Wapitis in den östlichen Countys, die in dieser Gegend seit über 150 Jahren ausgestorben waren.