It’s hard to fully appreciate the breadth of beauty and depth of ecological diversity California has to offer through ...

Every day when yours truly goes to work, he walks past a pair of flags in the wind. One is, of course, the Stars and Stripes of our republic, and the second the flag of the great state of California.

The California grizzly bear is prominently featured on the state’s flag despite disappearing due to overhunting more than a century ago. But, it could make its return to the Golden State under a new ...

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 ...

When California’s now-iconic bear flag was introduced in the mid-1800s, there were an estimated 10,000 grizzlies statewide. When that flag was officially adopted in 1911, grizzly bears were ...