We returned home around 5:00 pm, after a stop at Bob’s Trading Post in Kane, PA for pizza and ice cream. Cora said that two deer and a elk came to visit! I guess we should have stuck around for a longer time at Cora and Dave’s wedding celebration. We did see one elk, this one, while at the Elk Country Visitor Center. We didn’t expect to see any elk, given the time of day and how hot it was. I am hoping that Bob and I can attend the next Benezette Elk Camera Club picnic, which will be held in late September.įrom the old schoolhouse pavilion we rode to the Elk Country Visitor Center and to the elk viewing site on Winslow Hill. Some of the club members were new to us, known until then only via Facebook. Some of the club members we met 3 years ago at a club picnic in Benezette at the same location as the wedding celebration. We visited with a few other camera club group members in addition to Cora. It was nice to finally meet Cora in person, after 4 years of being Facebook friends.īob and I spent about an hour at the pavilion. I said close enough, that my name is Linda Gross. When I said that I lived in Warren, I could tell there was recognition on Cora’s part. The camera club has over 300 members, and Cora has not met everyone in the club. It didn’t help Cora identify who I was, when I said that I was a member of the Benezette Elk Camera Club. I said hello to Cora and asked if she knew who I was. I walked up to Cora, soon after she arrived at the old schoolhouse pavilion. We met in person for the first time at her wedding celebration. Family and friends were gathered at the pavilion to celebrate their wedding.Ĭora and I knew each other only via Facebook, via the Benezette Elk Camera Club group. We stopped at the pavilion to wish Cora and Dave congratulations on their marriage, which had taken place earlier in the day. I am sure that the lightning cable will come in handy on other rides too.įrom Walmart we rode to Benezette, to the old schoolhouse pavilion. I had forgotten to charge my iPhone before leaving on our ride. I purchased a lightning cable to charge my iPhone, while riding the motorcycle. The food and service were excellent.Īfter lunch, we rode to Walmart in St. Bob ordered a Reuben sandwich with onion rings. We didn’t see Chrystle, as she wasn’t working that weekend. I had hoped to see my cousin, Chrystle, who waitresses at the diner. This diner was Dad’s favorite place to eat, while at his cabin in the “mountains”. Thank you, Gretchen, for taking this picture of the three of us!Īfter a short visit with Gretchen and her family, we left for our next destination, lunch at Rose’s Hilltop Diner in Weedville, PA. We crashed Gretchen’s father’s birthday BBQ so that we could meet this beautiful and precious baby girl and, of course, to see our friend. I LOVE this picture of Baby “A”, Bob and me.
A few minutes later we crashed her dad’s birthday BBQ. Gretchen gave us directions to her parents’ house.
She was at her parents’ house, which is in Ridgway as well. Gretchen answered my call, AND she was in Ridgway. Parked on South Broad Street in Ridgway, PAĪs I do whenever we pass through Ridgway and have no time constraints, I telephoned a friend who lives in Ridgway. We parked on South Broad Street, beside the courthouse. We departed home at 9:30 am, en route Benezette PA. The WMA is also home to Tennessee’s Elk Reintroduction Program, and is the first and only public viewing area for elk in an authentic setting in the state.Bob and I went for a motorcycle ride on Saturday, June 25. It is situated on the Sundquist Wildlife Management Area, 70,000 acres of a diverse array of habitats and wildlife. Visit the Hatfield Knob Elk Viewing Tower. There were 201 elk in total that were released over a period of eight years. Beginning in December 2000, the agency began conducting small releases of elk from Elk Island National Park (AL, Canada) into the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area. Part of the agency’s mission is to restore extirpated wildlife when and where it is biologically and sociologically feasible. TWRA decided to reintroduce elk to the state in the late 1990’s.
But left unmanaged, unregulated hunting and loss of habitat eventually became too great, and elk herds east of the Mississippi disappeared by the late 1800s. Since then, efforts by hunter-conservationists and state wildlife agencies have helped restore elk populations across the nation. Early records indicated that elk were abundant in the state prior to being settled by European explores and colonists. Their numbers proved a plentiful resource that explorers, trappers, and settlers depended on for survival. It has been about 150 years since elk wandered throughout Tennessee.
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