Plans in the works to import more elk to NWO

The Lake of the Woods Elk Restoration Committee is hoping to be able to increase  the size of the herd in northwestern Ontario in the next year or so.

Numbers have dwindled down to about 39 in the Cameron Lake area southeast of

Kenora.

Murray English is the co-chair of the committee and says because they are no longer allowed to import wild elk from out west, they are looking to southern Ontario now to increase their numbers.

English says it would be 2012 at the earliest to have any elk transported from southwestern Ontario.