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Rally to save Tule elk Details 08 April 2021 Rally at Point Reyes National Seashore After National Park Service Announces Death Toll of 152 Rare Tule Elk   In Defense of Animals,  TreeSpirit Project and  ForELK are hosting a rally on Saturday, April 10 to highlight the deadly mismanagement of Point Reyes National Seashore. The  National Park Service (NPS) announced that 152 Tule elk died in 2020, one in three elk inside a “Preserve.” Activists raised the alarm about the huge number of elk dying during the drought, but the NPS rep...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Tule elk in Marin are dying off, as the park service and activists feud over the reason why. FacebookTwitterEmail Tule elks in a meadow in Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California.NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Tule elk have had a long, hard history of survival in California. The subspecies of the elk, native to California, once roamed the state in the hundreds of thousands, but uncontrolled hunting and human settlement in the 19th century nearly wiped them out, with numbers dwindling to less that 30 in the 1870s. That last small herd ...