The Department of Natural Resources is receiving recent reports of bull elk sightings in southwestern and southeastern Wisconsin.
D-N-R officials say young bulls leaving their home range is natural behavior during the fall breeding season.
These bulls are some of the first seen southern counties in more than a hundred years.
Wildlife supervisor Scott Roepke said local deer hunters aren’t used to keeping any eye out for elk, so they should make sure they’ve got a white-tail in their sights before taking a shot this season.
Elk were driven out of Wisconsin in the 1880s, but efforts to restore the population in the Black River Falls area began in 2015.
