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The Tupman Zoological Reserve was established in 1932 with about 175 tule elk from the Miller and Lux Ranch herd. [4] [5] The state of California took over the site in 1953. [5] [4] The Tule Elk State Natural Reserve has constructed ponds, and supplemental food is provided for the animals, [6] without which the population could not survive. [7]
A map shows distribution of chronic wasting disease among wild and captive animal populations in North America as of October 2023. On May 7, 2024, officials from the California Department of Fish ...
A cow/calf winter herd is a herd that consists only of female elk and their young. In a normal winter, defined as one where there is a decent amount of snow fall, one study found that when the groups of cows and calves were safe from predation by wolves, about 75.6-83.0% of their diet was made up of graze whereas when wolves were present this number dropped to 61.6-69.4%. [3]
A herd of Roosevelt elk in California. Elk have thick bodies with slender legs and short tails. They have a shoulder height of 0.75–1.5 m (2 ft 6 in – 4 ft 11 in) with a nose-to-tail length of 1.6–2.7 m (5 ft 3 in – 8 ft 10 in).
When Diesel the donkey went missing near Sacramento, California, five years ago, owner Terrie Drewry assumed the worst. But then a hunter made a stunning discovery. A pet donkey disappeared in ...
The first European explorer to see tule elk was likely Sir Francis Drake who landed in July 1579 probably in today's Drake's Bay, Marin County, California: "The inland we found to be far different from the shoare, a goodly country and fruitful soil, stored with many blessings fit for the use of man: infinite was the company of very large and fat deer, which there we saw by thousands as we ...
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Fort Hunter Liggett is a United States Army post in Jolon, California, in southern Monterey County, California. The fort, named in 1941 after General Hunter Liggett, is primarily used as a training facility, where activities such as field maneuvers and live fire exercises are performed. It is roughly 25 miles northwest of Camp Roberts, California.