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Hypothesis points to how profound indirect effects of human caused ecological changes can be-
For a generation now lake trout (mackinaw) have greatly reduced the formerly hugely abundant Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake and in its tributary streams. This decline was made worse by the emergence of whirling disease, a parasite carried by people [...]
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 →Brian Horejsi takes some wind out-
In the United States we are familiar with livestock operators in grizzly country often complaining about how they have a lot of trouble with grizzly bears.
A half century ago, the province of Alberta had many more of the great bear than the struggling American populations south of the [...]
Continue Reading →The collar of Grizzly #726, emitting a mortality signal, was detected during a routine flight on September 12, 2012. The collar hadn’t moved for a while so the mercury switch that tells the collar that the bear is still alive hadn’t been triggered, thus increasing the frequency of the beeps heard from the telemetry monitor. [...]
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” [...]
Continue Reading →GPS collar shows grizzly was on ridge above Grant Creek in Oct. 2011-
For years there have been reports grizzly bears in or near “The Rattlesnake,” just north of Missoula, Montana. Now there is hard proof that one grizzly briefly visited in October 2011.
A “dropped” GPS collar found miles to the north from a female [...]
Continue Reading →In their December 29th editorial in the Billings Gazette, Scott Talbott of the Wyoming Game and Fish and Harv Forsgren of the U.S. Forest Service wrote that hunting was another step towards grizzly bear recovery.
To read their editorial, go to this link: Guest opinion: Hunting another step toward grizzly bear recovery.
Specifically, the [...]
Continue Reading →At least 50 dead griz, but population said to grow by 15-
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem stretches over about 18-million acres and into 3 states. Grizzly bears inhabit about 2/3 of that to some degree, hardly being confined to the smallish 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone National Park.
Grizzly bear numbers have been growing for [...]
Continue Reading →Much discussed case ends with victory for bear researchers-
Yolanda Evert sued the federal government over the grizzly mauling death of her husband Erwin Evert as he walked near the Kitty Creek trail on June 17, 2010. Erwin Evert came upon a male grizzly that had very recently been trapped, tranquilized, and radio-collared. The bear [...]
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