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Article: GAME COMMISSION EMPLOYEES CONDUCT UNIQUE RESCUE OF ELK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 20, 2006
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The Pennsylvania Game Commission issued the following news release:
A team of Pennsylvania Game Commission employees successfully engaged in a unique rescue of a bull elk that had a tire swing hanging from its left antler and was becoming weary after two days of carrying the tire around.
On Sept. 18, Game Commission officials were able to track down the three- or four-year-old six-by-six antlered elk. Initially sighted by canoers, Game Commission employees found the elk along the Sinnemahoning Creek at around 10 a.m.
"We were notified that an elk was seen wandering around with a tire and rope tangled around its left antler," said Tony Ross, Game Commission Northcentral Region Wildlife ...