John “Grizzly” Adams was a western mountain-man legend, a man who earned his name by training grizzly bears in the California wilderness. His legacy spawned a film and television series in the 1970s, ...

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 ...