A feasibility report using historical maps and ecological data is raising excitement: \u2018It would be a slow process\u2019<\/p>\n
On the eve of the gold rush, California was teeming with grizzly bears \u2013 as many as 10,000 of them. They were so popular that the Bear Flag Republic \u2013 a short-lived attempt by a group of US settlers to break away from Mexico in 1846 \u2013 used the animals as their mascot; an image that still adorns California\u2019s flag.<\/p>\n
But by the mid-1920s, the bears were all gone. The last documented sighting of a grizzly bear in California was in the spring of 1924 in Sequoia national park, a lonesome bear wandering among the trees.<\/p>\n
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