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In the spring time, Pacific dogwoods burst open and decorate Yosemite Valley with beautiful white, petal-like bracts surrounding their teeny, tiny blooms. In autumn, after dogwoods have long lost their white bracts, red-pink berry bunches hang from the trees. Beauty in every season! | Yosemite National Park

As we can see on the state’s flag, grizzly bears are an iconic symbol for the state of California. Tens of thousands of grizzlies once roamed the state, living along the coastline and up through the Sierra Nevada. By the 1920s, however, all California grizzles had been hunted to extinction. In the latest episode of Yosemite Nature Notes, learn the history of this icon of the wilderness and what the symbol of the California grizzly means to Yosemite today. | Yosemite National Park