
It ventured to an area east of Warroad along Roseau County Road 12 in 2010 and was likely photographed hundreds of times over the years.Īs one would expect, given the bull's iconic local status, my story about its passing generated quite a buzz on social media. It stayed in the same general area north of the Marvin plant for six or seven years before deciding to head south and cross the Warroad River. The bull elk, which had become a local icon, first showed up about 20 years ago in a field north of the Marvin Windows and Doors factory and was a fixture in the area for at least two decades.

DNR staff picked up the bull Thursday night, March 9, and it was taken the next day to the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at the University of Minnesota, Laudenslager told the Herald at the time. I wrote about the bull elk in early March, after it was found dead by a farmer's hayshed in the same area east of Warroad where it had spent the past 13 years.
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"We're still waiting on a test for bovine tuberculosis, and we're not going to hear about the age for quite awhile yet," Scott Laudenslager, area wildlife manager for the Department of Natural Resources in Baudette, Minnesota, said Monday, April 10.
