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grizzly mortality

  • Greater Yellowstone grizzly population stops growing, drops slightly

    Ralph Maughan

    Record mortality in 2010 took its toll- Population goes from 602 to 593. Fifty-five grizzly died or were killed by people in 2010, a record. That pace is off slightly in 2011 (35 so far).  A large number of grizzly food sources have disappeared in recent years, most notably whitebark pine seeds and cutthroat trout.…

  • Global Warming, Killer Bears?

    Brian Ertz

    Obama’s Abandonment of the West Doug Peacock continues to enrich the debate over grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem : Global Warming, Killer Bears? Doug Peacock, Counterpunch Biologists sometimes like to quibble that losing the grizzly because of the collapse of whitebark pine forests may be the least of our ecological worries. Ecosystems are, of…

  • Another grizzly bear killing in NW Montana-

    Ralph Maughan

    Most recent grizzly death is 11th this year. By Vince Devlin of the Missoulian

  • Human caused deaths driving grizzlies toward extinction in Banff N. P.

    Ralph Maughan

    The train route through the Park is the major killer, but hardly the only human source of mortality. Story. Grizzly bear decline blamed on humans. Trains top killers in Banff, Jasper parks, says report. Cathy Ellis, The Calgary Herald

  • Known grizzly bear deaths increase, but it's no crisis

    Ralph Maughan

    This is another story on the high grizzly mortality rate this year. Known bear deaths increase, but it’s no crisis. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette. . . . it’s official line that it’s no crisis unless it happens two years in a row. With the rapidly growing loss of whitebark pine, is there any reason…

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