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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.
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 Blue represents the sky, and gold represents the color of the precious metal found by forty-niners in the ...
Nicholas Goldberg. August 1, 2022 at 6:00 AM. A grizzly bear in the North Fork of the Flathead River drainage in Montana. ( Associated Press) For thousands of years, grizzly bears roamed ...
The seal shows Athena in Greek mythology (alternately Minerva in Roman mythology), the goddess of wisdom and war, because she was born an adult, and California was never a territory; a California grizzly bear, the official state animal, feeding on grape vines, representing California's wine production; a sheaf of grain, representing agriculture ...
Known for. his love of grizzly bears and performing with the trained bears in the circus. John Boyden Adams ( also known as James Capen Adams and Grizzly Adams) (October 22, 1812 – October 25, 1860) [ a] was a famous California mountain man and trainer of grizzly bears and other wild animals he captured for menageries, zoological gardens and ...
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.
Their flag, featuring a silhouette of a California grizzly bear, became known as the "Bear Flag" and was later the basis for the official state flag of California. Three weeks later, on July 5, 1846, the Republic's military of 100 to 200 men was subsumed into the California Battalion commanded by Brevet Captain John C. Frémont.