* 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called " Elk Cloner ".

On average, an adult moose stands high at the shoulder, which is more than a foot higher than the next largest deer on average, the Elk.

Roosevelt built a second ranch, which he named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles ( 56 km ) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota.

Elk also inhabit river valley bottomlands, which they share with White-tailed deer.

The county is bisected from east to west by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which connects the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Elk River.

Also in 1929 Dr. Michael Shadid created a health plan in Elk City, Oklahoma in which farmers bought shares for $ 50 to raise the money to build a hospital.

The Central Valley was once home to large populations of pronghorn antelope ( Antilocapra americana ), elk including the endemic Tule Elk subspecies ( Cervus elaphus nannodes ), mule deer ( Odocoileus hemionus ), California ground squirrels, gophers, mice, hare, rabbits and kangaroo rats, along with their predators including the San Joaquin Kit Fox which is now an endangered subspecies surviving on the hillsides of the San Joaquin Valley.

The town is situated along Anderson Creek, which empties into the Elk River near the Lauderdale-Limestone county border.

Elk near Tusayan, in the Kaibab National Forest, which surrounds the town.

Pine Hill is a much smaller area than " Pine Hills ," which includes areas like Ridgewood and areas as far south as the small neighborhood of Elk River.

Beginning about four miles ( 6 km ) south of town along Elk Hills Road, between Buttonwillow and Taft, is the enormous Elk Hills Oil Field, formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, which figured prominently in the Teapot Dome scandal that tarnished the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

In 1913, the Elk Horn Coal Company established the town of Wayland, which they named after Clarence Wayland Watson, the president of the company.

It is physically split by the Elk River, which runs between nearby Elk Lake and Grand Traverse Bay.

Within 30 years of the Iron Work's founding, Elk Rapids had become the county seat of Antrim County ( which Bellaire took from Elk Rapids in 1880 ), plus the town boasted a cement plant, a chemical plant, a depot on the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad, and a population of nearly 2000.

The major geographic feature of Elk Township is the Elk Creek which flows eastward into the Des Moines River system.

The main geographic featurew of Hersey Township is the Elk Creek which cuts eastward through the county, eventually flowing into the Des Moines River system.

The main geographic feature of Lismore Township is the Elk Creek which flows westward and eventually joins the Big Sioux River system.

Lone Elk Park also contains animals such as elk, deer, buffalo, and turkeys, which can be viewed on a drive through the park.

For grades 7-12, public school students attend the Delsea Regional School District, which serves students from both Elk Township and Franklin Township.

Banner Elk is located in North America's humid continental climate zone due to its elevation which gives it a climate more like that of Altoona, Pennsylvania than Asheville, North Carolina during the winter and during the summer the temperatures are much like a mountain lake town in New Hampshire.

The upper river between Moon Creek and Elk Creek is fished mainly for winter steelhead, and no fishing is allowed upstream of Elk Creek.

The flight of the non-treaty Nez Perce began on June 15, 1877 with Chief Joseph, Looking Glass, White Bird, Ollokot, Lean Elk ( Poker Joe ) and Toohoolhoolzote leading 800 men, women and children in an attempt to reach a peaceful sanctuary.

In 1978, when Ryder was seven years old, she and her family relocated to Rainbow, a commune near Elk, Mendocino County, California, where they lived with seven other families on a plot of land.

Also there is a specimen of Elk in the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound that was collected historically on Orcas Island, and old timers report finding elk antlers on both Lopez and Orcas Islands.

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

The US Army attacked Spotted Elk ( aka Bigfoot ), Mnicoujou band of Lakota at the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 at Pine Ridge.

In 2004, the Supreme Court heard Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, an appeal of the ruling, and rejected Newdow's claim on the grounds that he was not the custodial parent, and therefore lacked standing, thus avoiding ruling on the merits of whether the phrase was constitutional in a school-sponsored recitation.

Making paintings with oil and watercolor was a new form of art to the Taos Pueblo who traditionally painted objects such as hides or inside buildings, such as on the walls of a kiva, but one embraced by artists such as Albert Looking Elk, Albert Lujan, Juan Mirabal and Juanito Concha.

It is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay on the west, the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Elk River and its isthmus on the north.

It is situated on the slopes of the Elk Hill in Vijayanagaram of Ooty town in Tamil Nadu, India at an altitude of 2200 meters.

Elk County was created on April 18, 1843, from parts of Jefferson, Clearfield and McKean Counties, and is named for the Eastern elk that historically inhabited the region.

Cameron County was created on March 29, 1860, from parts of Clinton, Elk, McKean, and Potter Counties.

The county was legally organized on September 6, 1866 with Elk Creek designated as the temporary county seat.

Chautauqua County was created by an act of the Kansas legislature on June 1, 1875 by the division of Howard County into Elk County ( the northern half ) and Chautauqua County ( the southern half ).

While originally intended to be a high adventure camp, Elk Lick is now a traditional summer camp, with emphasis on nature and other outdoor related merit badges.

Initially, the town developed around a stage stop on the Monterey Trail, though after the railroad passed by east of town, Elk Grove's center shifted to its present location.

Laguna West-Lakeside is an area located on the west side of the city of Elk Grove in Sacramento County, California.

It is bordered roughly by Jackson Road on the north, Roughly a line 1 / 4 a mile to the east of Grant Line Road, Calvine Road on the south, and Elk Grove Florin Road on the west.

* A moose in the National Nature Park " Losinyj Ostrov " ( Moose or " Elk " Island ) in Russia

Their tribal territory stretched from what is now Yellowstone National Park and the headwaters of the Yellowstone River ( E-chee-dick-karsh-ah-shay —" Elk River ") in the west, north to the Musselshell River, then northeast to the Yellowstone's mouth at the Missouri River, then southeast to the confluence of the Yellowstone and Powder Rivers ( Bilap chashee —" Powder River " or " Ash River "), south along the South Fork of the Powder River, confined in the SE by the Rattlesnake Mountains and westwards in the SW by the Wind River Range.

* National Elk Refuge

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Elk County, Pennsylvania

* Two Elk National Recreation Trail

* Data for the Elk Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics

* Given that Historic U. S. Route 66 runs through Elk City, a sprawling museum complex has developed, which includes the National Route 66 Museum, the Old Town Museum, the Transportation Museum, the Farm and Ranch Museum, and the Blacksmith Museum.

Elk City is also in close proximity to many other attractions in Western Oklahoma, including the Flying W Guest Ranch, Foss State Park, the Washita National Wildlife Refuge, Black Kettle National Grassland, the Wichita Mountains, the Antelope Hills, the Quartz Mountains, the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, and the Black Kettle Museum.

* Elk City features five museums: the Old Town Museum, the National Route 66 Museum, the National Transportation Museum, the Farm and Ranch Museum, and the Blacksmith Museum.

Elk are not indigenous to Banff, and were introduced in 1917 with 57 elk brought in from Yellowstone National Park.

Elk Island National Park (), is one of 43 national parks and park reserves administered by the Parks Canada Agency.

Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park is situated in the Beaverhills area, which with its aspen thickets and easy access to water, has provided shelter for wintering herds of elk, bison and moose since times immemorial.

Elk Island Park was later granted federal park status in 1913, and then designation as an official National Park under the National Parks Act which passed through the Canadian Parliament in 1930.

True to its roots, Elk Island National Park still maintains a thriving elk population, estimated at 605 in 2007, as well as around 300 moose and over 500 deer.

Elk Island National Park also remains a seed herd for repopulation efforts in other areas.

Bison in the Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park has a prominent history in large ungulate conservation.