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Elk was originally called "Greenwood," after the Greenwood brothers, [2] early homesteaders and sons of mountain man Caleb Greenwood and his half-Crow wife, one of the rescuers of the Donner Party. When the post office was opened, in 1887, [2] there was already another Greenwood in California so it was called Elk Post Office. Eventually the ...
Elk, California may refer to: Elk, Fresno County, California; Elk, Mendocino County, California This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 10:10 (UTC). Text is ...
Juvenile Tule elk (Bull) with budding antlers during the Spring Making rutting call or "bugle" Herd at Lake Pillsbury near Hull Mountain, Mendocino National Forest in Lake County, California. The tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) is a subspecies of elk found only in California, ranging from the grasslands and marshlands of the Central ...
For its part, California wildlife officials have been on guard against the disease, monitoring and testing California elk and deer populations since 2000. The state has carried out more than 6,500 ...
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]
For 40 years the species has thrived on protected federal land — the Point Reyes National Seashore — but now part of their herd is disappearing. "Well, the thing about the tule elk is they're ...
Elk Mountain is about 10 mi (16 km) north of Upper Lake, California. [4] Elk Mountain Road runs from Upper Lake north to Lake Pillsbury on Eel River. It passes about 1 km (0.62 mi) to the east of Elk Mountain. [3] The Elk Mountain Road (National Forest Route M1) is a dirt road that is the main access route into the Mendocino National Forest. [5]
Pautah County, California was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada. When the cession never occurred, the California State Legislature officially abolished the never-organized county in 1859. [4]