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Learn how to hunt bull elk at WRMC.
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| The Elk Camp & Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Expo runs Thu-Sun at Will Rogers Memorial Center, 3401 W Lancaster Av, FW. Admission is $12-25. Call 800-225-5355. |
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Hear the Bugle
We should eat more elk. Texas isn’t home to the large species of deer (or wapiti, to use the name given by the Shawnee Indians), but it easily could be. Elk are native to the Rocky Mountains, but they’ve been introduced to a number of states, from Michigan to North Carolina, where their adaptability to many different environments has made them into a highly successful invasive species that usually has a bad effect on the other wildlife and especially on the plants that they eat. So elk are in no danger of going extinct, their antlered heads make for striking hunting-room trophies, and they also provide tasty meat which for some reason no one is interested in eating. If more people hunted elk for food, it might relieve some stress on the earth caused by the beef industry’s excesses. (Or so it looks to our non-hunting point of view.)
If you’re intrigued, check out the Elk Camp & Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Expo, an event that has been going on for 25 years but has never before been held in Texas. Four days’ worth of seminars, exhibits, and displays will show you the ins and outs of hunting this majestic animal. The event also features the World Elk Calling Championships, in which contestants imitate the male’s distinctive bugling call. Males use the call during mating season; they also attract females by rolling around in their own urine. Let’s hope the contestants stick to imitating the call.
The Elk Camp & Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Expo runs Thu-Sun at Will Rogers Memorial Center, 3401 W Lancaster Av, FW. Admission is $12-25. Call 800-225-5355.
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