How to Use tule elk in a Sentence

tule elk

noun
  • Elephant seals and tule elk are a few of the thousand species that live in the area.
    — Food Drink Life, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • Herds of tule elk, collecting in sub herds for mating, are sprinkled across the reserve.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Mammoths once sipped at Tulare Lake’s shores, and tule elk ranged in its marshlands.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Previous stamp stars include the black bear, tule elk, sturgeon, spiny lobster and bald eagle.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Kern River was once a thriving oasis for migrating birds and tule elk.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The clash over the elks’ access to drinking water is the latest installment in a long-standing battle over the management of the peninsula’s tule elk herds.
    — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The area is also home to tule elk, a subspecies of the North American elk, that lives only in California.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Two decades ago, 19 tule elk were reintroduced at the site, part of an effort to restore a population that once numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
  • Inland, tule elk, coyotes, assorted raptors, weasels, badgers, foxes, barn swallows and bobcats may surround you in the park’s grasslands and pine forests.
    — Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2020
  • How to manage the conflicts between the tule elk and historic ranches has already been hotly debated in Congress, courtrooms, the media and in the public over the years.
    — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Coyotes, bobcats, grey foxes, and mountain lions, along with deer, tule elk, wild pigs, turkeys, quails, doves, rabbits, ground squirrels, and raccoons can be found on the huge ranch, along with an array of birds.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
  • While tule elk once roamed much of Central and Northern California, their numbers plummeted to near extinction over the past century and a half.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
  • One of the most popular trails is Tomales Point, which is not only home to the majestic tule elk reserve, but offers brilliant, panoramic views of the Pacific blue ocean.
    — Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
  • When settlers arrived, the river flowed into lakes and vast wetlands in the southern San Joaquin Valley, forming a green oasis where tule elk grazed and millions of migrating birds clouded the sky.
    — Ian James Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Before agriculture subdued the mountain rivers, much of the southern San Joaquin Valley was transformed each spring into marsh teeming with tule elk and antelope, honkers, and gray and Canada geese.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In 1978, state and federal wildlife managers moved some of the last tule elk in California back to the northern tip of the park at Tomales Point in an attempt to save them from extinction.
    — Susanne Rust Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • In California, a 2021 agreement gives the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria a voice in the management of native tule elk at Tomales Point, most of which is part of the Phillip Burton Wilderness.
    — Clare E. Boerigter, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In 2024, after pressure from the tribal community and others, the National Park Service began removing a 2-mile-long fence that prevented the tule elk from roaming freely and introduced new signs and interpretive programs that incorporated traditional ecological knowledge.
    — Clare E. Boerigter, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2026

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