It’s peak breeding season for northern elephant seals, and biologists with the Point Reyes National Seashore are taking extra precautions at Drakes Beach, where last winter a colony set up camp during the government shutdown and effectively blocked visitor access. The event caused a full beach closure, and the spectacle—which is not typically so accessible to the public—generated international media attention
The seals historically have hauled out along Drakes Beach, but not at the primary…