Yes, that is correct the grizzly bears once roamed the region, albeit briefly with the settlement of the region. In August 1873, at Devil’s Corral, Morgan Williams spotted one such bear. Further north, in 1878 the grizzlies were problematic for sheep men. In June 1878, J.J. Board spotted four such bears, that killed fourteen of his sheep. In retaliation, Bogard killed three grizzly bears. Finally, the last documentation of grizzly bears in Lassen County occurred in 1879. This happened in far northeastern Lassen County, in the Warner Mountains. In September, George Powers killed a grizzly weighing over 800 pounds at Blue Lake.

Tim