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Elk hunting could return to Missouri

(AP) Elk hunting could return to Missouri next year but on a very limited scale.

The Missouri Department of Conservation suggests in a draft set of rules published this week that it may initially award five elk hunting permits through a lottery system.

Elk once were common in the state but were eradicated by the end of the Civil War.

They were reintroduced in 2011, and the herd now totals around 175 animals.

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