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The California grizzly bear is one of the state's most visible and enduring symbols, adorning both the state flag and seal. The Bear Flag first flew in 1846 as a symbol of the short-lived California Republic. A second version was adopted as the state flag by the state legislature in 1911. [ 48]
The Bear Flag is the official flag of the U.S. state of California. [ 1] The precursor of the flag was first flown during the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and was also known as the Bear Flag. A predecessor, called the Lone Star Flag, was used in an 1836 independence movement; [ 2] the red star element from that flag appears in the Bear Flag of today.
Symbol Description Year Image Source Amphibian: California red-legged frog Rana draytonii: 2014 [2] Animal: California grizzly bear Ursus arctos californicus: 1958 Bat: Pallid bat. Antrozous pallidus. 2024 [3] Bird: California quail Callipepla californica: 1931 [4] Colors: Blue and gold
On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you've got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state.
California's is in the center, directly below a large American bald eagle, and is the only seal with supporters: two California grizzly bears. The historic Decatur House in Washington, D.C. , once owned by prominent Californian Edward Fitzgerald Beale , features a seal, installed by Beale soon after he bought the house in 1871, [ 68 ] made of ...
Had Monarch the Bear lived a few hundred years earlier — before the Gold Rush, before William Randolph Hearst challenged reporter Allen Kelly to trap (or buy, as it turned out) the last of the ...
The San Carlos Mission circa 1893. Mission Carmel ( a.k.a. The Carmel Mission) was the second mission built by Franciscan missionaries in Upper California. It was first established as Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Monterey, California near the native village of Tamo on June 3, 1770, by Father Junípero Serra.
The pallid bat will be added to the California State Library’s list of the state’s official symbols in 2024, joining the California gray whale and extinct California grizzly bear. Show ...