PHILADELPHIA (AP) – In rural Elk County, a mile from the $ 12 million Elk Country Visitor Center, a small herd of moose was chewing grass next to a new coffee shop called Elk Life. It was mostly women known as cows and a lone young bull nearby who wore two thin antlers called spikes. At the store, 43-year-old owner Eric Blythe said it opened in August and quickly filled the space with moose shirts, stuffed animals and even moose masks. In 2020, people were hungry to see these elk, once critically endangered in the state, but now a carefully managed resurgence in the northwestern Pennsylvania Wilds.