What’s the most ironic and tragic thing about the bear on the Californian flag and the state’s seal? The fact that there have not been any wild grizzly bears in the state for just over 100 years.

“The California grizzly did not disappear due to some inexorable force of human progress,” the study concludes. “Grizzlies ...

The last grizzly bear seen in California was 101 years ago ... The golden bruins emblazon the state flag and seal, live on in cartoonish effigy as university mascots, and roll off the tip of ...

A new study published in the Biological Conservation Journal found that there was sufficient habitat in California for a ...

The golden bruins emblazon the state flag and seal ... Just a few years later, in the spring of 1924, California’s last known grizzly bear was spotted in Sequoia National Park.