Santa Cruz Mountains Bear Stories : Timeline of Encounters

1600s

1602: California Grizzly Bear - Early Documented Grizzly Encounters

1776: California Grizzly Bear - Ohlone and Grizzlies

1849: California Grizzly Bear - Hunting and Trapping

1850s: California Grizzly Bear - Paul Sweet's Escape

1850s: California Grizzly Bear - Grizzlies Were Thick

1850s: California Grizzly Bear - He Bit the Bear!

1851: California Grizzly Bear - Santa Clara's Day

1851: California Grizzly Bear - "Chawed Up"

1854: California Grizzly Bear - “Mountain Charley” McKiernan

1854: California Grizzly Bear - Too Close of an Encounter

1859: California Grizzly Bear - Stationed on a Scaffold

1865: California Grizzly Bear - Lion-hearted and Brave Old Dog Saves the Day

1867: California Grizzly Bear - Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo

1872: California Grizzly Bear - Hunting and Trapping

1872: California Grizzly Bear - Treed by a Dead Bear

1875: California Grizzly Bear - The True Story of William Waddell

1877: California Grizzly Bear - Bears Like Bacon

1885: California Grizzly Bear - Not the Last Grizzly in the Santa Cruz Mountains

1885: Black Bear - A Bear on a Lark

1890: California Grizzly Bear - Grizzly in Big Basin - Too Frightened to Stay

1890: Black Bear - Black Bears in the Santa Cruz Mountains

1891: California Grizzly Bear - Billy Bruin Jr.

1899: Black Bear - Gatling Gun versus a Bear

1902: Black Bear - A Bear or a Bull?

1919: Black and Cinnamon Bear - Escape from the Zoo

1920: Yellowstone Grizzly Bear - Casa del Ursa - Rancho del Oso

1935: Unrealized Yosemite Black Bears! - Bears for Big Basin?

1978: Black Bear - The Soquel Bear

1979: Black Bear - The Saratoga Bear

1999: Black Bear - Recent Black Bear Sightings