The Santa Ana Mountains, including the canyons of Silverado, Modjeska, and Trabuco, were one of the last refuges of California's grizzly bear. At the turn of the century, beekeeping was an important local industry, supplying both products and pollination for area crops, but beginning in 1903 at least one bear's raids on hives threatened that livelihood. County game warden Ed Adkinson, himself a beekeeper, organized a hunting party to find the animal. On January 5th 1908, their dogs took up a bear's scent and drove it on a 5 mile chase through the mountains until the hunters caught up with it in a small canyon near Trabuco Canyon. After the bear fought desperately to escape, the dogs and hunters overcame it, and three shots from Adkinson killed it, ending a lineage that reached back to a time before the earliest native peoples of the Southwest. The animal was first mistaken for a black bear and was displayed for a time in a shoe store in Santa Ana, then its remains were sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for study and preservation. The Institution later lost track of the specimen, and the last example of her breed was lost to history.