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Annual elk hunt cancelled

Once numbering about 500,000, California's tule elk population was reduced to two — a male and a female — by the 1870s. Now there are 4,300 in 22 isolated herds around the state, including these at the Wind Wolves Preserve in Kern County.
Once numbering about 500,000, California’s tule elk population was reduced to two — a male and a female — by the 1870s. Now there are 4,300 in 22 isolated herds around the state, including these at the Wind Wolves Preserve in Kern County.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
By Jason Songwriter 
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An annual elk hunt held at Ft. Hunter Liggett in Central California has been canceled, state officials announced this week.

The U.S. Army training center has held hunts since 1996 but the area on the 165,000-acre facility where tule elk are generally hunted is being used for training this year.

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Prospective hunters have to apply for a permit. Over the past five years, non-military personnel have killed 80 elk.

Once endangered, there are about 4,300 tule elk in 22 isolated herds, according to state officials.

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Jason Song

Jason Song covered higher education with an emphasis on community colleges and online learning. He was part of the Los Angeles Times team that won the Scripps Howard Award for Public Service in 2011 and the Philip Meyer Award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization. He left The Times in 2016.

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