Bears
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A few incidents and some grizzly expansion onto the Montana plains- Now that the grizzly (and black) bears are mostly out into what has been a generally cold Rocky Mountain spring, there is, as always, grizzly bear news. First a minor mauling. A college student in Pablo, Montana was mauled by a griz during the…
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Brian Horejsi takes some wind out- In the United States we are familiar with livestock operators in grizzly country often complaining about how they have a lot of trouble with grizzly bears. A half century ago, the province of Alberta had many more of the great bear than the struggling American populations south of the…
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The collar of Grizzly #726, emitting a mortality signal, was detected during a routine flight on September 12, 2012. The collar hadn’t moved for a while so the mercury switch that tells the collar that the bear is still alive hadn’t been triggered, thus increasing the frequency of the beeps heard from the telemetry monitor.…
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Some are already out- For the next month grizzlies in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Canada will emerge from their dens. Some are reported to already be out hunting for the first tender grass and for winter carcasses. In the last few days there have been stories alerting people to the fact of the bears “awakening”…
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GPS collar shows grizzly was on ridge above Grant Creek in Oct. 2011- For years there have been reports grizzly bears in or near “The Rattlesnake,” just north of Missoula, Montana. Now there is hard proof that one grizzly briefly visited in October 2011. A “dropped” GPS collar found miles to the north from a female…
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In their December 29th editorial in the Billings Gazette, Scott Talbott of the Wyoming Game and Fish and Harv Forsgren of the U.S. Forest Service wrote that hunting was another step towards grizzly bear recovery. To read their editorial, go to this link: Guest opinion: Hunting another step toward grizzly bear recovery. Specifically, the authors…
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At least 50 dead griz, but population said to grow by 15- The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem stretches over about 18-million acres and into 3 states. Grizzly bears inhabit about 2/3 of that to some degree, hardly being confined to the smallish 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone National Park. Grizzly bear numbers have been growing for…
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Much discussed case ends with victory for bear researchers- Yolanda Evert sued the federal government over the grizzly mauling death of her husband Erwin Evert as he walked near the Kitty Creek trail on June 17, 2010. Erwin Evert came upon a male grizzly that had very recently been trapped, tranquilized, and radio-collared. The bear…