Grizzly bears have taken one lumbering step closer to roaming California again. California’s State Senate voted 29-9 on party ...

Enshrined on the California state flag is the grizzly bear, a figure of a bygone era, because the animal has had no presence in the state for over 100 years. California legislators are hoping to ...

Measures to study the reintroduction of grizzly bears and expand protections against mountain lions passed the state Senate ...

A bill aimed at crafting a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to California’s ecosystems is making its way through the Legislature, over a century after the state’s official animal was last seen in the ...

Enshrined on California’s state flag, the grizzly bear has been absent from the state’s landscape for more than 100 years. Now, state lawmakers are considering whether that iconic animal could ever ...

Many Californians don’t realize that the creature on its iconic state flag—a golden-furred subspecies of the North American grizzly—is long extinct. For the last 100 years, the apex predator has lived ...

California lawmakers on Tuesday moved forward on a bill that could lead to the re-introduction of grizzly bears to the state, more than a century after the quarter-ton predators were hunted into local ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Despite being an iconic California symbol, the grizzly bear has been practically extinct in the state for a century now. A new student-led film premiering at the Santa ...

California, the Golden State, is home to a diverse range of animal life, and it is no surprise that the state has designated interesting official animals to represent its unique identity. From the ...