History of Tule Elk in Marin County

Tule elk once roamed in the thousands across the hills and grasslands of Marin County and the Point Reyes peninsula. Through photos and personal stories from historic archives, Frank Binney explores the past abundance, near-extinction, and recent revival of the only elk subspecies native exclusively to California. A first-person account by Paul Revere's grandson of hunting elk in the Point Reyes National Seashore pastoral zone in 1846, along with observations by a present-day Coast Miwok, reveal little-known details of the former range and ecology of tule elk in Marin.

Speaker: Frank Binney, Point Reyes Field Institute Instructor and Elk Program Volunteer