The California grizzly has been extinct for a generation. Now researchers are considering whether to try and bring it back.
Before newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst built a sprawling castle in San Simeon, before he was elected to Congress, before he amassed a famous collection of European art, he had eyes for something equally bold but even more reckless. He sent a newspaper reporter out to capture a grizzly bear – if they still existed. It was 1889, after modern society had brought the species to the brink of extinction.
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