In 2008 and 2009, wolverines were sighted as far south as the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, for the first time since 1922.

In 2008, Sierra Entertainment announced Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust for PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and mobile phones.

Some franchises ( such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon ) that were published by Sierra will be published by Activision, which also announced in 2008 that it may sell the Sierra brand.

" God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre ", 2008, ISBN 1-4165-3440-7

Sierra County voters approved the creation of a spaceport tax district in April 2008, freeing up funding for its construction.

According to the March 2009 release of the Cochise College, Center for Economic Research's ( CER ) 2009 Economic Outlook, the July 2008 Arizona Department of Commerce ( DEC ) estimated population for the City of Sierra Vista, Arizona was 45, 908.

In addition, Sierra Vista is the 17th largest incorporated place in Arizona as of July 2008 DEC estimated population figures.

Sierra Entertainment, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA continued to publish games for the personal computer and popular gaming consoles until 2008 when their parent company Vivendi Universal merged with games publisher Activision.

On September 29, 2008, a hiker found Fossett's identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, and the crash site was discovered a few days later ( on 1 October 2008 ) due south from Flying-M Ranch where he took off, and due west ( 282 degrees ) of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area's base operations, although his remains were not initially found.

In 2008, the Sierra Club endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President, citing " his strong record of support for clean air, wetlands protection, and clean energy.

During a UNICEF goodwill trip to Sierra Leone in 2008, Mexican actress Salma Hayek decided to breast-feed a local infant in front of the accompanying film crew.

In 2008, the Doñana population was assessed at 24 to 33, with an estimated 60 to 110 adults in the Sierra Morena, which is the stronghold of the species.

* In the Sierra Morena area just north of Andújar, Andalucía, there were 150 Iberian lynx individuals overall in 2008, up from 60 in 2002.

Lost Cities was published by Sierra Online for the Xbox Live Arcade platform on April 23, 2008 for 800 Microsoft Points.

On 7 April 2008, Blah said that he had been sent a subpoena to testify at Taylor's trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

On April 19, 2008, the Eastern Sierra Audubon Society, Audubon California, and the Owens Valley Committee held the first lake-wide survey of the bird populations of Owens Lake.

* The emperor appears as a god in the strategy game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom made by Sierra Entertainment, ( owned by Vivendi until 2008 ).

Testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on August 28, 2008, Sekou Conneh said that, during the war, Sierra Leone and Guinea had allowed the LURD rebels free passage " through their borders with our arms without any questions from them ".

The most recent additions to Residence Housing are the Tuolumne ( opened Spring 2007 ) and Mariposa ( opened Fall 2008 ) Halls, which make up the two sections of the Sierra Terraces.

* June Holst-Roness ( d. 2008 ), mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

From 2008 to 2011, about 40 fishers were re-introduced in the northern Sierra Nevada near Stirling City, complementing fisher populations in Yosemite National Park and along California's northern boundary between the Pacific Coast Range and the Klamath Mountains.

On November 2, 2008, Sierra disabled the authentication servers required for its online multiplayer.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

Irvine's appointment fills a seat that had been empty since March 2008 when CEO Scott Meyer left to head Evidon, the parent company of Ghostery.

On 1 July 2008 the MillerCoors company was formed as a joint venture with rival Molson Coors to consolidate the production and distribution of its products in the United States, with each parent company's corporate operations and international operations remaining separate and independent of the joint venture.

While Gianni Paladini remained chairman of the football club, Alejandro Agag, as chairman of QPR Holdings ( the parent company ) was the de facto chairman, until he was replaced by Flavio Briatore in early February 2008.

Its trading in credit derivatives essentially bankrupted its parent company, AIG, and helped create the global financial crisis of 2008 – 2009.

On August 1, 2008, Schuylkill Health became the new parent organization for both facilities and their related health systems.

-According to a model based on " loop quantum gravity " theory, a parent universe that existed before ours may have left an imprint ( New Scientist, 10 April 2008 )

In March 2008, the tourism division of the airline's parent group TUI AG, merged with First Choice Holidays PLC, forming the new company TUI Travel.

* On October 2, 2007, The CW ( WB and UPN's successor ) announced that it would end the Kids ' WB block starting May 2008, due to the effects of children's advertising limits and cable competition, in a joint decision between Warner Bros. and CBS, parent companies of The CW.

* Molson Coors ( 2005 – 2008, parent company of CBC )

It was purchased in February 2008 by Reed Elsevier ( parent corporation of LexisNexis ) in a cash deal for $ 3. 6 billion USD.

In March 2008 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced its acquisition of NYMEX Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Commodity Exchange.

The pure, original Seppala bloodlines are rare but found in small numbers in several Canadian provinces, the main population now occurring in Manitoba where the parent kennel relocated in 2008.

BBC America is distributed in association with Discovery Networks, the United States division of Discovery Communications and parent company of the Discovery Channel, which also handled affiliate and advertising sales until this moved in-house on April 1, 2008.

On 16 July 2008, it was announced that Hudson's Bay Company ( the parent company of the Bay ) had been purchased by the US firm NRDC Equity Partners, which owns Lord & Taylor.

In January 2008, Acer announced that it had acquired a 75 % controlling share in the parent company of Packard Bell due to ownership rights that it had acquired when it purchased Gateway the year before, enabling Acer to counter offer any third party bid on Packard Bell.

In June 2008 Cable & Wireless made a predatory offer for Demon's parent, Thus.

Exterior of a typical Dominion store ( at Don Mills Centre in Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario ), prior to rebranding as Metro in late 2008 Metro, which previously operated solely in Quebec and the Ottawa area, acquired A & P Canada from the U. S .- based parent company effective August 15, 2005.

On March 17, 2008, the New York Mercantile Exchange ( NYMEX ) accepted an offer from CME Group, the parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to purchase NYMEX for $ 8. 9 billion in cash and CME Group Stock.

On 6 June 2008, Global Radio completed its £ 375 million takeover of Capital's parent company GCap Media.

: On October 9, 2008, Symantec announced its intent to acquire Gloucester based MessageLabs ( a 2007 spin-off from parent company Star Internet ) to boost its Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) business.

Eidos's parent company, Sci, revealed its 2008 financial report.