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Elk at Queens Shoals

Drawdy Falls near Peytona, WV, Boone County, Hatfield & McCoy Region

Anglers cast into the Elk River on a spring morning above Queens Shoals, near Clendenin, West Virginia, in Clay County, in the Heartland Region in central West Virginia. Photo by Rick Burgess

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