Tule elk once dominated California’s deer and pronghorn population in the San Joaquin Valley. Estimated at more than half a million animals before 1849, tule elk, an endemic California subspecies, were once hunted nearly to extinction. Their fascinating story of survival will delight and inspire students.

Our interactive, onsite adventure will feature the tule elk's history, habitat, biology, what defines a mammal, and how the tule elk were brought back from the brink of extinction.