SACRAMENTO — As California’s elk herds rebound, the state has proposed a new management plan for the animals — creatures of great magnificence and caution that were once nearly pushed out of existence ...

The Boone and Crockett Club announced the certification of a new world record for Roosevelt elk on Tuesday. California hunting guide Tim Carpenter killed the record bull in northern California in ...

Seven years after the end of the Civil War, hunters killed a 500-pound elk near Lake Tahoe, marking the near-final coda for a species on the edge of extinction. It’s time for the majestic animal, now ...

Subscriber exclusive: Management of tule elk in Point Reyes National Seashore invokes raw emotions four decades after they were reintroduced. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests, Jack ...

A herd of Roosevelt elk graze in a meadow near Prairie Creek in Redwood National and State Park on the northern California coast. Photo by James Adam Taylor Elk are California’s largest land mammal.

Sometimes the simplest “technologies” turn out to be the most useful. When UC Davis scientists set out this fall to study the gene flow of tule elk, they wanted to measure directly at the level of the ...

The National Park Service’s proposed plan for Point Reyes National Seashore would preserve ranching and cull tule elk within the park’s boundaries. Tule elk, found only in California, gather in the ...