Elk Viewing Welcome Center
The dream has become a reality and the new welcome center will hold it's official ribbon cutting in the morning. It will be a big deal, with government officials all the way to Gov. Ed Rendell attending. Of course, that means I will also be attending to photograph the event and write up an article about the speeches.
The hope is to alieve some of the traffic and give visitors a place to pull off and look for the elk without blocking the highway, trespassing on private property and many other ugly behaviours that have caused most long-time residents to have a slightly skewed feeling towards their famous residents.
The hope is to alieve some of the traffic and give visitors a place to pull off and look for the elk without blocking the highway, trespassing on private property and many other ugly behaviours that have caused most long-time residents to have a slightly skewed feeling towards their famous residents.
Labels: Benezette Elk, Govenor Ed Rendell, politics, tourism
posted by Gretchen at
7:42 PM
3 Comments:
I haven't been to Benezette in a few years. Bob and I will have to make a visit. If not this year, we will definitely make it over there next year.
Hi Gretchen,
Thanks for your comment on my blog. I will not be in Benezette tomorrow as I just got back from two weeks there and want to avoid the crowds anyway.
I do hope we can get together sometime and discuss photography and the elk.
I hope you have a good trip tomorrow! If you get to see the theater presentation, I provided some of the footage including the fight between the two large herd bulls and a lot of the scenes near the end that deal with others species such as eagles, bear, deer, etc.
How lucky you are to be able to see elk in the wild. They were reintroduced in Northern Ontario a few years ago. With any luck they will flourish and come to take their place with the other ungulates: moose and deer. There are some signs that they are doing well. In one area the are thinking of opening a short hunting season. It will be a while before they have the success of the reestablished wild turkey.
I hope some day they will reestablish the Eastern cougar, although there are tantalizing sign that there are a very few still in the North East.
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