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Yosemite bear hair study shows influx of human foods Print Email
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Jack Hopkins collects a sample of black bear hair in Yosemite National Park.
March 04, 2014 12:04 pm • MSU News Service 0
Black bears in Yosemite National Park and elsewhere are notorious for seeking out human food, even breaking [...]
Continue Reading →Bear gals and guys more attractive on the other side of the road?
Now that many wildlife crossings are in place in Canadian national parks of the Rockies (Banff especially), it is clear that they are benefiting grizzly and black bears. They not only prevent them from being killed on the Trans-Canada Highway, they facilitate [...]
Continue Reading →Four-year old grizzly steps in trap on Rocky Mountain Front, Montana-
Last year’s wolf trapping season in Idaho and Montana had a horrible by-catch ratio — animals other than wolves were trapped and many of them were injured or died.
Anti-wolf mania, as some would call it, continues. Now the first grizzly bear, a bear close [...]
Continue Reading →Year isn’t over but griz deaths in Greater Yellowstone only about half of 2012-
Earlier we wrote that grizzly bear deaths in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE) this year appeared lower than expected. It was hard to say more at the time because the government was shut down and the official grizzly mortality count was [...]
Continue Reading →A new study by Dr. Bill Ripple and his colleagues, “Trophic cascades from wolves to grizzly bears in Yellowstone” in the Journal of Animal Ecology suggests a second way the return of wolves has helped the Yellowstone grizzly bears.
Grizzlies have thrived in Yellowstone Park in recent years despite the destruction of the cutthroat trout fishery, [...]
Continue Reading →USFWS called “wrong” to say no grizzlies had been killed on Sheep Experiment Station on Idaho/Montana border, Continental Divide Area
Boise, ID. On May 17, 2013 the Western Watersheds Project, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Native Ecosystems Council and Yellowstone Buffalo Foundation filed a suit in federal district court to challenge domestic sheep grazing that has been [...]
Continue Reading →Will this program stem the decline of grizzlies in SW Alberta?
Grizzlies are on the decline in Alberta. The province has far fewer bears than adjacent British Columbia and even fewer than the state of Montana to its south.
Resource development such as tar sands, natural gas exploration and development all along the Rocky Mountain [...]
Continue Reading →A few incidents and some grizzly expansion onto the Montana plains-
Now that the grizzly (and black) bears are mostly out into what has been a generally cold Rocky Mountain spring, there is, as always, grizzly bear news.
First a minor mauling. A college student in Pablo, Montana was mauled by a griz during the [...]
Continue Reading →Some are already out-
For the next month grizzlies in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Canada will emerge from their dens. Some are reported to already be out hunting for the first tender grass and for winter carcasses.
In the last few days there have been stories alerting people to the fact of the bears “awakening” [...]
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