A pet donkey ran away. Five years later, he’s living with a wild elk herd.
An elk herd roams the sprawling oak savannas of Northern California with a member who isn’t an elk at all. His name is Diesel, and he is a donkey. The story about how an unassuming pack animal became something approaching a hoofed Tarzan started hundreds of miles away, involved a decades-old federal program and required … Read more