“The California grizzly was not the beast of legend. It was a typical brown bear: average size, mostly vegetarian and genetically indistinguishable from grizzlies living today in Montana and Wyoming.

“The California grizzly was not the beast of legend. It was a typical brown bear: average size, mostly vegetarian and genetically indistinguishable from grizzlies living today in Montana and Wyoming.

A female brown bear named Grazer is voted the winner of ... homes or trash cans in search of food have become a problem in California — from Lake Tahoe in the Sierra down to the foothill suburbs ...

According to the Forest Service, historically, Grizzlies have lived in California ... can also be brown. If that sounds needlessly confusing, it is; sorry—I don’t make the bear rules around here.

Home surveillance video captured the moments a bear played in a Northern California pool in the middle of the night — all while homeowner Leslie Schmid and her husband were sound asleep.

But recently the bear has been joined on its nightly visits with a larger, brown-colored bear ... according to Jennifer Carlson, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Shasta-Trinity ...