Nice to have the boys home. As you get older, you start to realize they will soon have homes and lives of their own. And visit less often. Its what you want for them but its hard too.

I think herds get bigger on some of the nature reserves. This herd is on mostly private land and one of the smaller ones. The Tule Elk is only in California and was almost extinct. Now there are several thousand mostly on public lands where they have been re-introduced.