Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Once the most densely populated Grizzly region of the what is now the USA, the last Caliornia Griz was killed in 1924......."THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY would like to see the grizzly introduced back into California and is petitioning the USFW folks to do just that........... "The group says there’s 8,000 miles of uninhabited Sierra Nevada the bear could call home"............. "The grizzly bear was once a considerable presence in Southern California"............. "Biologists Tracey Storer and Lloyd Tevis in their seminal 1955 study, "California Grizzly," estimated the animal's population within the Golden State at 10,000"............... "Grizzlies lived along the coast, in riparian zones along the Los Angeles River, and in chaparral".................. "In fact, besides the inland deserts, the one habitat grizzlies seemed to avoid were the coniferous forests associated with black bears today"............................."Place names attest to the bear's wide distribution".............. "In the San Bernardino Mountains, Bear Valley and Big Bear Lake derive their names from the abundance of grizzlies Benjamin D. Wilson spotted on an expedition through the marshy depression".......... "And in Orange County, according to local lore, Oso Parkway recalls the grizzlies that once roamed the area's foothills"

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Is California Ready For The Grizzly Bear, Again?

By  • 10 HOURS AGO NPR Radio

Two grizzly bears playing at the Pocatello Zoo in Idaho.
Griz roamed all throughout California except
in eastern desert region














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HISTORY | LA AS SUBJECT

A Brief History

 of Bears

 in the Los 

Angeles Area

by 
August 9, 2013 10:12 AM
Riders capture a grizzly bear.
Courtesy of the Security Pacific National Bank
Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.


Californians capture a grizzly bear. Courtesy of the California State Library.
Californians capture a grizzly bear. Courtesy
 of the California State Library.
Two men lasso a bear in Ventura County. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California Historical Society Collection.
Two men lasso a bear in Ventura County.
 Courtesy of the USC Libraries - California
Historical Society Collection.



About the Author

A writer specializing in Los Angeles history, Nathan Masters
 serves as manager of academic events and programming
communications for the USC Libraries, the host institution for L.A










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