I was, of course, being facetious. For the most part, anyway.
There are plenty of truly wild places left in California. That may be hard to grasp from somewhere like the L.A. basin, the Bay Area, and other large population centers, but but a few days spent up north in places like Humboldt County, or up in the Sierra Nevada range, and places like that would demonstrate just how much wilderness remains in California. These areas would be eminently suitable for a large scale reintroduction of the Golden Bear.
Not that I wouldn't mind seeing them in the Los Angeles Basin, or in the Bay Area. Many of the activists that insist we need more wolves in my state, or in my neighboring states, hail from these areas. It would be nice to give them a really big, brown, somewhat cantankerous taste of their own medicine. But that's just being petty and vindictive. I'm sure a few of these roaming the Basin or the Bay Area would serve to discourage camping on your sidewalks, however...
