What are the pros and cons of reintroducing Elk into the Northeast?

Question

What are the pros and cons of reintroducing Elk into the Northeast?

Answer 1

CON: It will bring up tobacco chewing NRA hunters from the South to shoot them

PRO: the missed shots might hit liberals

Answer 2

pros:they would repopulate and build their numbers

cons:hunters would shoot them

Answer 3

Elk supposedly roamed throughout the US at one time.  As for the pro, I would think that one would be a return of a natural species in an ecosystem where it once was a part of.  It would also put in check the ever expanding population of deer in the northeast.  The deer right now are at abnormally high levels and elk would at least occupy living space and compete for food.  This would in turn reduce the deer population to a lower, closer to normal level.  A con would be damage to agricultural crops as well as tree plantations.  There is also the possibility of spreading certain disease in elk that are not found currently in the northeast.  I personally think it is a good idea for parts of PA and MI, maybe even the Adirondacks of NY.....who knows

Answer 4

pro-aware of none

cons-

Elk would displace the native whitetail deer population

Elk are not native to NE