Study seeks a better count by using hair samples-

Bear Market. By Brett Prettyman. The Salt Lake Tribune

Tagged with:
 
About The Author

Ralph Maughan

Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.

5 Responses to Biologists want to know how many bears live in Utah

  1. mikarooni says:

    They can’t do this sort of research in Utah; Utah is GOP country and McCain said this kind of research wastes money.

  2. Marge says:

    Interesting. I once knew a guy who did this exact thing in the White Rock Wildlife Management Area in Arkansas.

  3. Scott Hanley says:

    I was going to make mikarooni’s comment, but he beat me to it. Informed decisions just waste taxpayer money.

  4. Jeff says:

    There is certainly a healthy population in the Tavaputs Plateau region in East Central Utah. Nearly everythime I floated the Green River through Desolation and Gray’s Canyons we’d see at least one bear.

  5. ProWolf in WY says:

    This research is okay as long as we are not doing paternity tests or crime scene investigations.

Calendar

March 2009
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Quote

‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey

%d bloggers like this: