WI: California Grizzly Never Goes Extinct

What if the California Brown Bear never went extinct during the twentieth century due to overhunting? How does this effect the development of the state in the decades to come?
 
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Anyways if that's the case it depends how many are alive. In this case we know very few will live and I'd imagine the conservation efforts will be very keen on this animal.
 
The why is important. Was it a fluke that it survived despite the odds or was it the result of efforts to save it through protection and conservation of habitat? If it was a conservation and protection then other animals and habitats will have also been saved.
 
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Anyways if that's the case it depends how many are alive. In this case we know very few will live and I'd imagine the conservation efforts will be very keen on this animal.

Why should the mods lock such a legitimate thread due to "too few sentences"? The mods don't lock arbitrarily, just when it's a frivolous idea...
 
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Anyways if that's the case it depends how many are alive. In this case we know very few will live and I'd imagine the conservation efforts will be very keen on this animal.

Please don't make up rules that don't exist.
 

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There really wouldn't be any difference (might be easier for me to get a date on Saturday night, but I digress...).

Grizzlies were always in fairly short supply, confined mostly to the Sierras and the North Coast forests. Their range began to shrink as soon as somebody showed up with a weapon that could kill them at a distance.

You would have folks out in the tullies coming up short a dog or cat somewhat more often, but that would be about it.
 
If it's noticed early enough--say, around 1906 or so--Gifford Pinchot might be able to make a case for some sort of proto-protection to TR, which may result in saving a remnant number of survivors in the wild and a few more in zoos. In turn, that same sort of effort might extend to the California condor (is it extinct now?), the passenger pigeon, and the Carolina paroquet.
 
I like the big cats, so it would cool if the Jaguar was saved in the USA by the same process that saves the Grizzly. Perhaps SoCal could demand their share of the conservation budget by elevating the Jaguar as their glamour animal.
 
http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/california-condor
click CONSERVATION

'The California condor population was almost wiped out by the destruction of habitat, poaching, and lead poisoning. In 1982, only 22 birds remained in the wild. San Diego Zoo Global was given permission to begin the first captive propagation program for California condors. The program also involved the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Game, the National Audubon Society, and the Los Angeles Zoo.

'Thanks to the conservation-breeding program, within 20 years the population of California condors grew to almost 200 birds. . . '
So, chalk one up for a conservation success story.
 

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So, chalk one up for a conservation success story.

Little known fact:

California Condors were nearly driven to extinction due to their extreme ugliness.

A face even a mother couldn't love.

Exhibit A:

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A small population of grizzlies up the mountains, maybe near the Oregon border? Nice, but it wouldn't directly change California in any way I can think of.
 
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