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Environmental groups have asked a federal court in Montana to stop domestic sheep grazing this summer at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in southwest Montana. On June 23, 2014, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians and Gallatin Wildlife Association filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Biological Opinion for [...]
Continue Reading →Readers who have followed The Wildlife News for awhile may recall an ongoing and often cantankerous debate concerning the efficacy of firearms for deterring bear attacks. While acknowledging that bear spray could be an effective deterrent, a few regular commenters argued vociferously that a gun would be more effective–at least for someone who could quickly [...]
Continue Reading →Adult male grizzly was shot May 7 near the Cave Falls Road-
Idaho spring black bear season began April 15, and the first Greater Yellowstone grizzly death of the season has been logged. An eleven-year old male griz was shot by someone (so far unidentified) just off the Cave Falls Road near the southwest corner of [...]
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Bozeman, Mont.—Conservation groups are questioning why the U.S. Department of Justice did not prosecute what appears to be the illegal killing of a grizzly bear last summer on a Forest Service sheep grazing allotment near Yellowstone National Park. Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Gallatin Wildlife Association, WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project received reports from the [...]
Continue Reading →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, [...]
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