California Grizzly

Forty years its original publication California Grizzly is still the most comprehensive book on bear's history in California. The lessons of the book resonate today as the issue of protection of wildlife habitat versus development of land for human use are debated with increasing urgency. Rick Bass has provide a new foreword for this edition that addresses these issues.

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).

Summary

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. This book focuses on the bear's history in California.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Irwin Storer, Lloyd P. Tevis, Tracy I. Storer, Tevis Lloyd P., Tracy I Storer, Lloyd P Tevis, Tracy Irwin/ Tevis Storer
• Assisted by: Rick Bass (Foreword), Bass Rick (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 12.12.1996
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
• EAN: 9780520205208
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20520-8
• Pages: 335
• Dimensions (packing): 14.3 x 21.5 x 2.3 cm
• Subjects: USA; NATURE / Animals / Wildlife; Wildlife: general interest; United States of America, USA