JWFilips
Well-Known Member
We Here in PA, surprisingly have a pretty sizable elk population in the western part of the state & we are allowed to hunt them with the proper tags.
They are an indigenous species to PA. They were hunted pretty much to extinction in the state by the late 1800's.
An interesting factoid: the Pennsylvania Indians had a name for them , "Moos" & this led to most early history chroniclers calling them "Moose" where in the 1700's settlers saw large herds of them covering the tops of the mountains around my area that mistakenly gave them the name "Moosic Mountains" also "Moosic Lake' to name a few! What they failed to understand is the Indian word "Moos" actually meant large hoofed deer!
This fault in all our early history books of the area always plagued me!
Moose on top of mountains??? More like down in swampy valleys!!!!
Also if you go 30 minutes north of me the mountains are called "Elk Mountain and other things, like Elk Lake!
I did research and talked to actual Native American descendants who cleared it up for me .
Of course I tried to tell the local historical societies ( very unsuccessfully!)
I hate when history gets distorted to this extreme!
They are an indigenous species to PA. They were hunted pretty much to extinction in the state by the late 1800's.
An interesting factoid: the Pennsylvania Indians had a name for them , "Moos" & this led to most early history chroniclers calling them "Moose" where in the 1700's settlers saw large herds of them covering the tops of the mountains around my area that mistakenly gave them the name "Moosic Mountains" also "Moosic Lake' to name a few! What they failed to understand is the Indian word "Moos" actually meant large hoofed deer!
This fault in all our early history books of the area always plagued me!
Moose on top of mountains??? More like down in swampy valleys!!!!
Also if you go 30 minutes north of me the mountains are called "Elk Mountain and other things, like Elk Lake!
I did research and talked to actual Native American descendants who cleared it up for me .
Of course I tried to tell the local historical societies ( very unsuccessfully!)
I hate when history gets distorted to this extreme!