From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Hunter kills wild elk on farm in S. Illinois," by Paul Hampel--
Illinois conservation officials confirmed Tuesday that the kill was the first known shooting of an elk in the wild in the region since 2001, when a hunter bagged one in Calhoun County that had escaped from a nearby preserve.
But Sachtleben, and his father, Doug Sachtleben, 39, a real estate appraiser, suspect that the elk shot Saturday was about 2-years-old and the offspring of animals that escaped a nearby preserve that closed down in the early 1990s.
If that's true, it would mark the first known self-sustaining population of elk in the wild in the region in almost 200 years.
--Posted by Illinois Vioxx attorney T. Evan Schaeffer of Madison County Illinois PI law firm Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C.
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