{"id":465863,"date":"2026-09-16T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465863\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:32:09","slug":"fact-brief-is-santa-clara-county-home-to-a-population-of-elk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465863\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Brief: Is Santa Clara County home to a population of elk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789583529_761_factBriefImage.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Santa Clara County is home to a population of tule elk that live along the Diablo Mountain Range, which includes Mount Diablo, Mount Hamilton and continues south along the eastern side of Santa Clara County and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tule elk can grow to 7 feet in length while weighing between 400 to 800 pounds. They\u2019re found only in California and nearly became extinct due to overhunting and habitat loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the 1870s a small group of tule elk were located and protected. Now, the elk population has grown to about 6,000 animals throughout the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>County residents have a chance to see the local tule elk at Joseph D. Grant, Anderson and Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch county parks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bayarea\/comments\/1wa82hc\/comment\/p8g627s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight partners with <a href=\"https:\/\/gigafact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gigafact<\/a> to produce fact briefs \u2014 bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/gigafact.org\/guidelines-principles-and-methodologies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">methodology<\/a> to learn how we check claims.<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes. Santa Clara County is home to a population of tule elk that live along the Diablo Mountain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-465863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}