 Spring is quickly approaching, which means time is running out to apply for the 2024 Kentucky Elk Hunt Drawing. The drawing will be held in early May and applications for the Elk Draw are open until April 30th. Process begins with a resident or non-resident, either one can apply, you can purchase these drawings either through any vendor that we have where you can buy a typical hunt license or official license, or you can do it online through fw.ky.gov. Once those are purchased, there is for adults there are three categories. You have a bullfire arm, a cowfire arm, and then you have either sex, archery, or crossbow. That's for the adults. It's the same for the youth as well, but they also can apply for just a youth, it's just a youth drawing itself. So they actually get four and adults have three. Appalachian Community Care offers outpatient medication assisted treatment for addiction, counseling, and behavioral play therapy for children, accepting Medicare and all major insurance. Recovery is hard, regret is harder. Appalachian Community Care, Pikeville, Whitesburg, 606-432-5660, find them on Facebook. Over 500 applicants will be selected across three categories, elk bullfire arm, elk cowfire arm, and elk crossbow and archery. Kentucky residents will receive 90% or more of the total permits awarded. The elk population, a lot of people may know, they may not know, but the East Kentucky elk population is the largest east of the Rockies. Just like anything else that we have, whether it be deer or elk, bear, turkey, they have to be controlled in a certain way, and a drawing allows people a chance once in a lifetime hunt, so the drawing came about and to be able to control that species in the state. For more information or to apply for the drawing, go to ky.gov. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.