Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding season and many folks are making the trip to see them from a safe distance. The sound of mighty ...

The park service also wanted to remove the Drake's Beach tule elk herd but take no ... Ninety tenants on ranches will cease operations at Point Reyes within 15 months. Eleven family ranchers ...

The Nature Conservancy’s role as banker and broker of the ranch buyouts, and the National Park Service’s pivotal entreaty to ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males ...

The sound of mighty elephant seals re-staking their claim to Drake's Beach echoing in Point Reyes for winter breeding season, and you really have to see these creatures to believe them. Critically ...

The Park Service is close to finalizing a ranch management plan for Point Reyes that, at the request of ranchers, would allow the agency to regularly kill a portion of the free-roaming Drakes Beach ...

In 1998 the Park Service moved a few elk to the Limantour wilderness area of Point Reyes to establish a free-roaming herd. The Limantour herd and an offshoot Drakes Beach herd had grown to 387 elk as ...

(KRON) — A sick seabird with apparent oiled feathers was found on a beach at Point Reyes National Seashore, park officials said over the weekend. A wildlife biologist responded to Drakes Beach ...

Those who want to observe the elephant seals can view them from the Elephant Seal Overlook near Chimney Rock above Drakes Bay or from the South Beach Overlook near the Point Reyes Lighthouse ...

POINT REYES, Calif. (KGO) -- In the North Bay, a major migration is happening in Marin County. Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding ...

Located on the Point Reyes Peninsula, 40 miles northwest of San Francisco ... and the only marine wilderness (Drakes Estero) on the West Coast south of Alaska. The park harbors an astonishingly rich ...