Meet Carrington Hilson, an Environmental Scientist with CDFW’s Northern Region tasked full-time with monitoring, researching and managing the North Coast’s burgeoning elk herds, one of the nation’s great wildlife success stories. Once on the precipice of extinction due to market hunting and westward expansion in the 19th century, Roosevelt elk populations today are growing in Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino counties as are tule elk populations in Mendocino County. Although an elk biologist, Ca

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