{"id":706852,"date":"2026-06-16T05:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706852\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:29:25","slug":"photos-meet-the-man-who-led-elk-reintroduction-in-great-smoky-mountains-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706852\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Meet the man who led elk reintroduction in Great Smoky Mountains National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Kim DeLozier is a retired wildlife biologist who spent decades working for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. <\/p>\n<p>During his tenure, where he worked with wildlife in the park, observing, learning and ultimately becoming the go-to person to lead efforts to bring elk back to western North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/great-smoky-mountains-elk-reintroduction-documentary-cataloochee-valley-wildlife-restoration-kim-delozier-eastern-band-cherokee-indians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE HOW ELK RETURNED TO GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK IN &#8216;ELK: A REINTRODUCTION&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographer Susie Neel shared images of DeLozier working with bears and elk over the years. The gallery includes images of animals that were darted and sedated for care purposes.<\/p>\n<p>DeLozier is one of many people interviewed for \u201cElk: A Reintroduction,\u201d a full-length documentary about the return of elk to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2001. Watch the story below:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>Share your photos and videos of elk in western North Carolina through <a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/chimein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chime In<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Kim DeLozier is a retired wildlife biologist who spent decades working for Great Smoky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-706852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}