Central California’s lumbering wood beast needs a name

Source: New York Post

Move over Yogi — there’s a new big bear in town. A massive wooden bruin just planted itself in the San Joaquin Valley, and unlike its real-life cousins, this one isn’t after picnic baskets — it just needs a name. Merced County is crowdsourcing ideas for the larger-than-life sculpture, carved straight out of a dying 100-year-old tree that once stood in the park.