While some 10,000 grizzly bears used to roam California, the great bear was killed by ranchers, landowners, and others by the ...

Grizzlies lived across California, from the Sierra Nevada to the Central Valley to the coast ranges — in other words, everywhere but the low deserts. Native Californians had coexisted with the bear ...

their fur ranges in color from blond to black. It’s been a century since the grizzly bear was hunted to extinction in California, leaving only its image, ironically, on the state flag.