California welcomes new state symbols: Bigberry manzanita and giant garter snake

The Golden State has added an official shrub and snake, both selected for how they embody California’s natural resilience.
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California adopts Richmond-created Freedom Flag as official 9/11 remembrance symbol

Richmond-created Freedom Flag Foundation continues mission to establish national symbol for September 11 remembrance as flag now flies in all 50 states SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has become the ...
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California Announces New State Symbols

California has announced two new state symbols. Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Friday establishing the bigberry manzanita as California’s state shrub and the giant garter snake as the ...
SFGate

Why California chose a threatened reptile and a hardy shrub as its latest symbols

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been busy in recent weeks signing bills on everything from housing policy to prescription drug costs. But he also signed legislation last week that included two new symbols for ...
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All 50 U.S. State Flags and the Meanings Behind Them

Since 1895, the Alabama state flag has been a crimson St. Andrew’s cross on a rectangular field of white. The design was likely intended to “preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive ...
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The Golden State flag and the myth of Monarch the grizzly

Monarch, one of the last California grizzly bears, on display at the California Academy of Sciences. (Natalia Seenarine/Courthouse News) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — At the California Academy of Sciences in ...