There'd be a lot of pissed off folks if they released some somewhere like Cheaha or Skyline. Elk move a good deal and are super destructive on crops. A lot of folks in Western NC want them gone and we don't even have a "huntable" herd. Not that it wouldn't be cool to have them, but I'm sure Id be ready to kill em all if they just ate all the corn or other crop I took the time to put in the ground.

And they can mess up a car pretty bad too.