Mt Whitney Zone Forums The Chat Room Grizzly Bear Returns To California

The last known California grizzly bear was killed in 1922 in Tulare County near Yosemite National Park.

But visitors to the Santa Maria Natural History Museum can get a glimpse of the fearsome figure that adorns the state flag in a new exhibit on loan from Napa Valley.

Full story here.

Moving to Santa Maria from Napa constitutes "return[ing] to California"?

That could explain why my Red's Meadow resupply box went to a Santa Maria P.O box first, then to Mammoth. I knew Baja California was in another country, but I didn't realize Alta California was, too. I'll have to remember that.

Just can't trust news articles anymore:

> The last known California grizzly bear was killed in 1922 in Tulare County near Yosemite National Park.

There are several counties between Tulare County and Yosemite. Sequoia N.P. overlaps Tulare County.

This was posted rather tounge-in-cheek.

Years ago, in a very posh restaurant in Channel Islands Harbour, there was a sign up high - "Bar". Directly under it was a cage with a full-sized rampant grizz.