[97fan]

A friend of mine did an interesting radio story a little while back about Monarch, the grizzly that's memorialized on the California state flag. The story involves William Randolph Hearst, a San Francisco newspaper reporter who was sent bear-hunting in Ventura County, and Golden Gate Park.

http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2012/10/24/28981/monarch-the-sad-amazing-story-of-the-bear-on-calif/

These events took place in roughly the same era that UC-Berkeley adopted its nickname; I'm not sure if there's a connection, though.

[97fan]

A friend of mine did an interesting radio story a little while back about Monarch, the grizzly that's memorialized on the California state flag. The story involves William Randolph Hearst, a San Francisco newspaper reporter who was sent bear-hunting in Ventura County, and Golden Gate Park.

http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2012/10/24/28981/monarch-the-sad-amazing-story-of-the-bear-on-calif/

These events took place in roughly the same era that UC-Berkeley adopted its nickname; I'm not sure if there's a connection, though.