Audit: Missouri elk restoration cost three times the estimate

Thursday, December 29, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's elk restoration program has cost about three times more than initially estimated, to a cost of about $30,000 per animal, the state auditor's office said in a review released Wednesday.

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