It was first developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in Genoa, Italy and Nimes, France though unconfirmed, tradition has it that the word “jeans” comes from “Genoa” while “de Nimes” led to “denim.” The coarse cotton fabric was often used for working people’s clothes. Fabricĭenim has been a part of California since the Gold Rush era. Photo credit: © Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Augustynolophus morrisi became California’s official state dinosaur in 2017. It’s the most complete dinosaur to be found in the state. Its fossils were first unearthed in 1939 in the Moreno Formation of Fresno County and have only been found in California. Augustynolophus belongs to a family of dinosaurs known scientifically as Hadrosauridae and informally as “duck-billed dinosaurs.” About 30 feet in length, Augustynolophus was an herbivore.
DinosaurĪugustynolophus morrisi (au-gus-tine-o-LOAF-us MORE-iss-ee) roamed what is now central California approximately 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian Age, making it a contemporary of well-known dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. It was created at the grassroots level and devotees of this art come from every conceivable ethnic, religious, racial, and economic background. West Coast Swing Dancing, related to the Swing, Whip, or Jitterbug, came into being in the early 1930s in response to new musical forms then sweeping the land. Jordan suggested making blue and gold the official state colors and in 1951, the State Legislature passed legislation to that effect. The Secretary of State began using blue and gold ribbons with the state seal on official documents as early as 1913. Blue represented the sky and gold the color of the precious metal found by forty-niners in the state’s hills. The combination of blue and gold as official colors in California were first used as school colors by the University of California, Berkeley in 1875. They nest in hollows scratched in the ground and concealed by foliage, and their eggs, 6 to 28 in number, are creamy white and thickly spotted with golden brown. Flocks number from a few to 60 or more in the fall and winter months, but in the spring break into pairs. Plump, gray-colored, and smaller than a pigeon, the California quail sports a downward curving black plume on top of its head and black bib with white stripe under the beak. A widely distributed and prized game bird, it is known for its hardiness and adaptability.
The California quail (Lophortyx californica), also known as the valley quail, became the official state bird in 1931. The last one was killed in Tulare County in August 1922, more than 20 years before the authority to regulate the take of fish and wildlife was delegated to the California Fish and Game Commission by the State Legislature. Less than 75 years after the discovery of gold, every grizzly bear in California had been tracked down and killed. It killed livestock and interfered with settlers. As humans began to populate California, the grizzly stood its ground, refusing to retreat in the face of advancing civilization.
Before dying out in California, this largest and most powerful of carnivores thrived in the great valleys and low mountains of the state, probably in greater numbers than anywhere else in the United States. The California grizzly bear (Ursus californicus) was designated official State Animal in 1953. Photo credit: “California red-legged frog (Threatened)” by Robert Fletcher, Ohlone Preserve Conservation Bank, is licensed © CC BY 2.0 Animal It is now found primarily in coastal regions from Marin County to northern Baja California. Fish and Wildlife Service listed it as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. It has lost 70 percent of its former habitat range, and in 1996, the U.S.
Recent development and competition from invasive species have also been hard on the California red-legged frog. Perhaps best known for its probable appearance in Mark Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) is the largest native frog in the western United States and is almost exclusive to California.ĭuring the Gold Rush, miners ate nearly 80,000 frogs per year.
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