A herd of 110 Tule elk occupy the Cache Creek herd range, located in the oak chaparral foothills of northcentral California. The Bureau of Land Management conducted an intensive inventory of the range during 1972 in cooperation with the California Department of Fish and Game. The objectives were to obtain basic elk habitat use information and make recommendations for future BLM elk range management. Results showing the following: (1) There are two sub-herd ranges. (2) A traditional breeding ground may exist. (3) The manner in which elk cross fences and fence design influence elk-fence interactions. (4) 71% of the elk range is privately owned and thus subject to land use changes that could adversely affect the elk. (5) Habitat management recommendations included private land acquisition, dense brush conversion, water development, minimizing human disturbance, and construction of a trial fence to study elk movement and livestock control.
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