San Jose, California

==== Wildlife ====
Early written documents record the local presence of migrating salmon in the Rio Guadalupe dating as far back as the 18th century.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historical distribution and current status of steelhead/rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in streams of the San Francisco Estuary, California |author=Leidy, R.A. |author2=G.S. Becker |author3=B.N. Harvey |url=http://www.cemar.org/pdf/santaclara.pdf |publisher=Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration, Oakland, California. |year=2005 |access-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725152116/http://www.cemar.org/pdf/santaclara.pdf |archive-date=July 25, 2011 }}</ref> Both [[Rainbow trout|steelhead]] (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') and [[Chinook salmon|King salmon]] are extant in the [[Guadalupe River (California)|Guadalupe River]], making San Jose the southernmost major U. S. city with known salmon spawning runs, the other cities being [[Anchorage, Alaska]]; [[Seattle, Washington]]; [[Portland, Oregon]] and [[Sacramento, California]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Chinook Salmon |publisher= NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service – Salmon Populations – Chinook |url= http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/ESA-Salmon-Listings/Salmon-Populations/Chinook/Index.cfm |access-date= September 13, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100911162442/http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/ESA-Salmon-Listings/Salmon-Populations/Chinook/Index.cfm |archive-date= September 11, 2010 |df= mdy-all }}{{failed verification |date=November 2013}}</ref> Runs of up to 1,000 [[Chinook Salmon|Chinook or King Salmon]] (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') swam up the Guadalupe River each fall in the 1990s, but have all but vanished in the current decade apparently blocked from access to breeding grounds by impassable culverts, weirs and wide, exposed and flat concrete paved channels installed by the [[Santa Clara Valley Water District]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sensitive Fish Species in the Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregion |publisher=Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregional Council |year=2004 |url=http://www.scmbc.net/sensitivefish.htm |access-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629144856/http://www.scmbc.net/sensitivefish.htm |archive-date=June 29, 2010 }}</ref> In 2011 a small number of Chinook salmon were filmed spawning under the Julian Street bridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guadalupe River King Salmon Spawn under Julian Street bridge, Fall, 2011 |author=Greg Kerekes |website=[[YouTube]] |date=November 14, 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNMrODZ_Hgk |access-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202021348/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNMrODZ_Hgk |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Conservationist Roger Castillo, who discovered the remains of a mammoth on the banks of the Guadalupe River in 2005, found that a herd of [[tule elk]] (''Cervus canadensis'') had recolonized the hills of south San Jose east of Highway 101 in early 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tule Elk Make Remarkable Comeback In South San Jose Hills |author=Len Ramirez |date=January 24, 2019 |url=https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/01/24/tule-elk-make-remarkable-comeback-in-south-san-jose-hills/ |access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126011854/https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/01/24/tule-elk-make-remarkable-comeback-in-south-san-jose-hills/ |archive-date=January 26, 2019 }}</ref>

At the southern edge of San José, [[Coyote Valley, California|Coyote Valley]] is a corridor for wildlife migration between the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]] and the [[Diablo Range]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Coyote-Valley-vital-as-wildlife-corridor-3225361.php |title=Coyote Valley vital as wildlife corridor |work=SFGate |access-date=November 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109081430/http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Coyote-Valley-vital-as-wildlife-corridor-3225361.php |archive-date=November 9, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=BayNature>{{cite news |title=Coyote Valley Crossings |author=Laura Hautala |magazine=Bay Nature |date=January 1, 2009 |url=http://baynature.org/articles/coyote-valley-crossings/ |access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928024717/http://baynature.org/articles/coyote-valley-crossings/ |archive-date=September 28, 2013 }}</ref>