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Thursday, March 04, 2010

Ancient Elk In Rock Art

A petroglyph etched into the stone by native americans perhaps as long as 2000 years ago. There are quite a few bighorn sheep, but one obvious bull elk with an impressive rack.


elk petroglyph
ancient rock art depicting elk and other animals

2 comments:

Kyle Strauss said...

Is this from the Columbia Gorge?

OregonWild said...

Kyle - This image is from Horse Thief Lake State Park in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.

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