- John W. Laundré Laundré is in the biology department at Western Oregon University. He has studied cougars, wolves and coyotes in the U.S. and is the author of “Phantoms of the Prairie: Return of Cougars to the Midwest.”
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The Southwest Virginia Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s elk restoration zone on a private reclaimed strip mine site in Buchanan County draws a lot of sportsmen, who trade their rifles and bows for binoculars. Elk can legally be harvested outside of Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise counties during deer season. But hunting is prohibited in the three-county restoration area.
- MATT GENTRY | The Roanoke Times
A bull and a female elk emerge from a Buchanan County timber line at dusk. Breaks Interstate Park offers guided elk tours several months out of the year.
- MATT GENTRY | The Roanoke Times
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Exposing the Big Game 
That may be true, Americans losing or have lost touch with nature – but it’s also very evident in modern hunting practices. Going for a trophy, fair chase? what’s that, wasting animals, treating them like targets in a shooting gallery.
Sometimes I think it will never be recovered, the way modern life is.