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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

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.

I've flown to/from the LA area and SF area a few times, and you do fly over what looks from the air like some pretty rugged unpopulated land.