when did the california wildfires of 2017 start
2017 California wildfires In October 2017, 250 wildfires ignited across Northern California, burning over 245,000 acres (990Â km2), and causing more than $9.4 billion dollars (2017) in insured property losses, becoming the costliest group of wildfires on record.[6][2][7] It will take at least several months, and likely years to fully recover from the devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California in October, which destroyed at least 8,900 structures and killed 44 people, according to Sonoma County officials.[8] In addition, the Northern California fires hospitalized or injured at least 192 other people.[9][10]
California grizzly bear Less than 75 years after the discovery of gold in 1848, almost every grizzly bear in California had been tracked down and killed. One prospector in Southern California, William F. Holcomb (nicknamed "Grizzly Bill" Holcomb), was particularly well known for hunting grizzly bears in what is now San Bernardino County. The last hunted California grizzly was shot in Tulare County, California, in August 1922, although no body, skeleton or pelt was ever produced. Two years later in 1924, what was thought to be a grizzly was spotted in Sequoia National Park for the last time, and thereafter, grizzlies were never seen again in California.[12][13][14]