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

In 1967, animals belonging to a third subspecies, Rocky Mountain elk, were shipped from Yellowstone National Park to a southern California ranch in Tehachapi, where they escaped and began multiplying.

They are carnivorous and primarily prey on deer, elk, and occasionally smaller ... When two brothers were attacked by a mountain lion in California in March, killing one of them, it marked the ...

But this year, while out on a hunting trip in Auburn, California ... the other elk would move'. 'Apparently a warden in that area had found a dead mountain lion that they had suspected was ...

and mountains, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. They can be found wherever prey such as mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep, or feral hogs are present. Mountain lions usually ...

Mountain lions in California are becoming more nocturnal in an effort to avoid humans. The wildcats living in the greater Los Angeles area in regions with higher levels of human activity-hikers, ...