How to Use tule elk in a Sentence

tule elk

noun

• The Kern River was once a thriving oasis for migrating birds and tule elk.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• Herds of tule elk, collecting in sub herds for mating, are sprinkled across the reserve.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
• Many say the practice is wrecking the scenic landscape and at odds with the park’s mission of protecting wildlife, most notably the area’s famed herds of tule elk.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Meanwhile, park staff will be allowed to shoot some of the free-roaming Drakes Beach tule elk herd, which have harmed livestock and damaged ranch property in the past.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024