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San Bernardino County Museum Association, Quarterly Volume XXXII No. 3 & 4, Spring & Summer 1985. Paper covers, 28 pp.
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In very good condition. Brown paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes bibliography. [From first page] This paper is assembled from review of the historical and scientific literature and from interviews with early family members. Recent information has been obtained from United States Forest Service and State Fish and Game personnel. My interest in this subject harks back to my boyhood when my father recalled the killing of the last grizzly bear in Swarthout Canyon in the '90's. Later, when starting medical practice in Redlands, I made a house call on E.M. Van Deventer, then in his 90's, who told me of shooting antelope at Cabazon when working as a teamster, in his teens. He also had tales of cowboying on Mt. San Jacinto and encountering grizzlies attracted by jerky being dried in their cow camp. Occasional boyhood reports of bighorn sheep seen on Mt. San Gorgonio also piqued my interest.Areas of particular concern in my research for this paper were: 1) status of those native species that have successfully adapted to man's land usage and presence, 2) reasons for extermination of those that could not adapt, 3) planned introduction of non-native species, e.g. beaver and Black Bear, 4) establishment of feral populations' of domestic or caged animals, e.g. burro and opossum.