Elephant seals finding new places to call home

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Tagged elephant seal pups on a Humboldt County beach on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Tagging helps researchers estimate a seal colony’s population size and track changes over time. All research was done under NMFS/NOAA research permit NMFS 23188. PHOTO COURTESY CAL POLY HUMBOLDT

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Once nearly extinct, expanding elephant seal populations are heading north and setting up large new colonies. PAGE A3