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Counting elk from an airplane
Posted: 03.14.2012 at 1:32 PM
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A bull elk spotted from the plane in Cheboygan County.  / DNR
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Observers look out the window on each side of the plane for elk as the plane is flying about 80 mph and 500 feet in the air.

The DNR is keeping an eye on the elk population and surveying the numbers by air.

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