Elk and other large species in the mountains of North Carolina are constrained by changing habitat and human activity
Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a five-part in-depth series of Fraught Forests from the Carolina Public Press, which examines climate change challenges for mountain forests in western North Carolina. In the late fall afternoon, particularly during the mating season known as “estrus,” members of a herd of Manitoban elk in the Great …