Visher (1914:87) reported that the last native elk in Harding County was
killed in the Long Pine Hills in 1879, and also mentioned skulls picked
up in the Cave Hills. The origin of a wapiti allegedly shot in the Slim
Buttes in 1956 (Robert Kriege, personal communication) is unknown, but
presumably this individual was a wanderer, possibly from the Black Hills
to the south where elk were reintroduced some years ago.
~Odocoileus hemionus hemionus~ (Rafinesque, 1817)