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Mountain biking impacts on bears and other wildlife by Brian Horejsi

On August 5, 2014 By

This is a short email that Brian Horejsi sent me on mountain biking and bears. It is a thoughtful review of how mountain biking can have substantial impacts on wildlife.

The basic science solidly supports the general claim that bikers and bikes are displacing bears, can contribute to their habituation and are consequently adding negative […]

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Environmental Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Grizzly Bears at U.S. Sheep Experiment Station.

On June 23, 2014 By

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 […]

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Bear Deterrence — Pepper Spray or Firearm?

On June 18, 2014 By

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 […]

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Grizzly next to Yellowstone Park shot in Idaho spring bear hunt

On May 10, 2014 By

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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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Report Documents Grizzly Bear Killed Illegally.

On April 13, 2014 By

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 […]

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Yosemite bear hair study shows influx of human foods

On March 5, 2014 By

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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 […]

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Human-made wildlife crossings promote bear mating

On February 21, 2014 By

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 […]

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First grizzly bear that ends up in a trap for a wolf

On December 18, 2013 By

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 […]

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Missoula hosts Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee meeting today and tomorrow

On December 9, 2013 By

They will claim whitebark pine are not necessary to delist Yellowstone area grizzly bears-

They tried to delist the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population back in 2007, but skeptical bear conservationists sued because of the collapse of the thought-to-be-vital whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone. Bears feed voraciously on their protein and fat-filled nuts in the fall at […]

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Surprise. 2013 is a year of low grizzly bear mortality

On November 8, 2013 By

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 […]

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‎"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