North Dakota national park elk project progresses

Published September 11, 2012 3:23pm ET



MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — Officials at Theodore Roosevelt National Park are moving into the next phase of an elk management program, using technology rather than guns.

Superintendent Valerie Naylor says the western North Dakota park has finished reducing what was a bloated elk herd through managed hunts, and now it will monitor and maintain the remaining population using radio collars.

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