Four lucky Tennesseans—one of them from Anderson County and one from Morgan County—have been randomly selected to participate in the state’s second elk hunt.
Joseph Edward McDonald, Jr., of Clinton, and Jeffrey M. Burdick, of Oakdale, were among the four winners randomly drawn from thousands of applicants. Also drawn were Michael Duane Galloway of Corryton and Gregory Joseph Burns of Clarksville.
The winners were announced at the June meeting of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission last week in Nashville.
The hunt is scheduled for Oct. 18-22 on the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area in Scott and Campbell counties.
Parts of Anderson and Morgan counties also fall within the 145,000 acre WMA, which includes the Royal Blue, Sundquist and Emory River units.
A fifth elk permit for the hunt was donated to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which auctioned the permit to raise funds for the elk restoration program. The winning bid was made by Randy Hoisington, of Blocksburg, Calif., for $11,000.
More than 9,000 applicants submitted their names for this year’s hunt.
Last year, all five permit holders were successful in harvesting an elk in a much celebrated elk hunt, which was the first in Tennessee since the Civil War era.
Tennessee’s elk restoration program began in December 2000, 135 years after the last known elk was killed in Tennessee in Obion County.
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