California Grizzly [Paperback]

Tracy I. Storer (Author), Lloyd P. Tevis (Author), Rick Bass (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 27, 1996

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.

Editorial Reviews

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"A book that will appeal equally to the mammologist and the general reader. Provided with fine illustrations, the volume contains a thorough and probably definitive account of its subject." -- United States Quarterly Book Review

"California Grizzly [is] the only comprehensive volume on the subject." -- Jeanne Wirka, Defenders

About the Author

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).

Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (December 27, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520205200
• ISBN-13: 978-0520205208
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,188,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To bear with unbearable sorrow, September 8, 1999

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Though the work is forty years old, Storer and Tevis remains a valuable sourcebook for those wishing to understand the full nature of an extinction. It's all here: bear biology, relationships with Indians, relationships with Spaniards, stories of famous California Grizzlies, the ~real~ life and time of Grizzly Adams, and more. Whether you are a biologist, a historian, or just an armchair wildlife enthusiast, you will find California Grizzly a fascinating and necessary book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bear as California Emblem, November 5, 2007

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William J. Trinkle (Walnut Creek, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Beyond the scientific portions of this book, California Grizzly spends a Chapter discussing the role of the grizzly bear as a symbol and emblem of California. It collects facts and pieces of information not readily available elsewhere, like very early images of the California Bear Flag and information about drawings of the California grizzly. Given that its two authors were zoologists, it is impressive that they spent the time and had the interest to establish some of the more humanly significant materials about this animal, and its influence as symbol.

Since the book was first published in 1955, it is pleasant to have a new edition, which makes its information available to a new generation of readers and Californians.

William J. Trinkle----
Director
The Bear Flag Museum