October 31, 2007
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Mollies Pack has killed the well known alpha pair of the Hayden Valley Pack. I don’t have the details as to how it happened yet, but the Hayden Pack was being increasingly pressed by the larger Gibbon Pack from the SW and west and Mollies Pack from the SE. Remaining, but with their fate not…
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While it’s too soon to blame this on state management, the first year of state-run Greater Yellowstone grizzly management has seen too many deaths of grizzly sows, a very important parameter in keeping the delisted bear population from a relisting. Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Grizzly sow deaths close to upper limit.…
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Today’s blog by Rocky Barker in the Idaho Statesman. Is it a bear or Bigfoot? It is about an odd photo from Pennsylvania, said to be a “bigfoot.” Yet bigfoot has been called a creature (real or not) of the Pacific Northwest. Interest the Sasquatch is on the rise, and a biologist at Idaho State…