The California Bear Flag and the University of California football team the Golden Bears emblemize the great animal that has been extinct in California since the 1920s but once numbered perhaps as many as ten thousand in the state. Forty years after its original publication, University of California Press proudly reissues "California Grizzly", still the most comprehensive book on the bear's history in California. The lessons of the book resonate today as the issues of protection of wildlife habitat versus unfettered development of land for human use are debated with increasing urgency.
California Grizzly
Description
Table of Contents
Foreword by Rick Bass
Introduction
1 The record of grizzlies in California,
2 Physical features of the grizzly
3 Habits of California grizzlies,
4 Grizzlies and Indians,
5 Grizzlies and Spaniards,
6 Bear-and-bull fights,
1 Grizzlies and Americans,
8 Grizzly hunting in California,
9 Grizzly Adams
10 Captive grizzlies-some famous
11 Grizzly lore
12 The California grizzly as an emblem
Appendixes
A-Known specimens of California grizzly
B-Last records of g;rizzlies in California
C-Indian names for bears; tribes and tribal territories
D-Sources of information
Bibliography
Early newspaper articles on the California grizzly
Index
Author Description
Tracy I. Storer and Lloyd P. Tevis Jr. were both Professors of Zoology at the University of California, Davis. Tracy Storer co-authored Sierra Nevada Natural History (California, 1963). Rick Bass is the author of The Lost Grizzlies (1996).