Mount Laguna Elk

[HortoTheSlayer]

I remember driving through Mount Laguna a couple years ago thinking to myself that it looked like great elk habit and just wondered if there were ever elk roaming that mountain..the wife came across this on facebook and sent it to me.



Bull Elk still in velvet. So cool!

 

[ilovesprig]

I'm guessing there's more than one Mt Laguna in Cali...…..

 

[socalhntr]

Interesting... There's a Mount Laguna and a Laguna Mountain in Cali. I assume that's a typo on the post card. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162912&inline

 

[ilovesprig]

The card clearly states Laguna Mountain...But who knows, there were turkeys here a few 1000 years ago........

 

[Bill S.]

Theres another picture floating around of a couple bulls bedded in Laguna Meadow. And there’s a resident up there who found a couple sheds and still has them

 

[Aeon]

There are elk up at Laguna mtn in the central coast. its BLM and you can hunt it!!!!

 

[stikbrandon]

Theres another picture floating around of a couple bulls bedded in Laguna Meadow. And there’s a resident up there who found a couple sheds and still has them

I have heard the same thing.

I actually spoke with Travis. @sd_Muleys about it on the podcast

 

[TRICER]

I am gonna be dropping sheds in the lagunas over the next couple of seasons.

 

[nicapopolis]

I am gonna be dropping sheds in the lagunas over the next couple of seasons.

That's a definite @Aeon trick.

 

[SurfNHuntSD]

Higher chance of there being bears in Mt Laguna than elk..

That said, it'd be hilarious to drop sheds and imprint elk tracks up there to F with the hikers.

 

[Lungpopper]

Google says they planted some in the
lagunas in 1919.

 

[HortoTheSlayer]

The picture was posted in a Julian Facebook group.

 

[Snake Charmer]

Google says they planted some in the
lagunas in 1919.

If so they are'nt there anymore..

 

[TRICER]

If so they are'nt there anymore..

Ya but the real question is do you have any pictures proving the aren’t there?

 

[ilovesprig]

Google says they planted some in the
lagunas in 1919.

You never know...100 years ago...Back then, California was very pro hunting and was trying to introduce many kinds of game animals in the state...San Diego had great habitat for many species...Turkeys and chukar were introduced here, but did not take...Also, the word is the reason there's big bucks on the Guejito Ranch and Cuyamaca State Park was the intro of deer from the Kaibab.

ps...Guejito buck...27" wide with serious mass.

.

 

[Bill S.]

If so they are'nt there anymore..

Ya think?

 

[surfcity]

The card clearly states Laguna Mountain...But who knows, there were turkeys here a few 1000 years ago........

Not a 1000 but 25000 years ago....you know climate change and all back then. Steve I think your friend John Massie wrote about this....

 

[socalhntr]

The card clearly states Laguna Mountain...But who knows, there were turkeys here a few 1000 years ago........

HaHa, it clearly states Laguna Mountain AND Mount Laguna. Guess they didn't want to be wrong

 

[ilovesprig]

Not a 1000 but 25000 years ago....you know climate change and all back then. Steve I think your friend John Massie wrote about this....

Yeah John, he did....It was part of the presentation to try and relocate turkeys in California...The anti's hated this fact that they had been here (bones in La Brea tar pits).

 

[Bill S.]

The antis hate and idiocy runs deep. I had one try and tell me that pines are not native to Mount Laguna.... I have to question just how far back are we talking as far as native vs non-native? If we talk Creation than I suppose nothing or everything is native?!
@ilovesprig