Study seeks a better count by using hair samples-
Bear Market. By Brett Prettyman. The Salt Lake Tribune
Biologists want to know how many bears live in Utah
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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.
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They can’t do this sort of research in Utah; Utah is GOP country and McCain said this kind of research wastes money.
Interesting. I once knew a guy who did this exact thing in the White Rock Wildlife Management Area in Arkansas.
I was going to make mikarooni’s comment, but he beat me to it. Informed decisions just waste taxpayer money.
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.
This research is okay as long as we are not doing paternity tests or crime scene investigations.