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Interagency Grizzly Bear Team tells ways to reduce Yellowstone GBear mortality

June 6, 2009

Ralph Maughan

Report issued due to the 2008 spike in Greater Yellowstone grizzly deaths- Numerous methods are identified, but a smaller number give more “bank for the buck” (the buck being not so much money as political or cultural resistance). Yellowstone Mortality and Conflicts Reduction Report. IGBST. June 5, 2009 Note: I hope discussion of this doesn’t…
Grizzlies flunk test to open new kind of camp cooler

June 1, 2009

Ralph Maughan

Breaking and entering experts at West Yellowstone Wolf and Grizzly Discovery Center can’t open (or smash) new coolers- Although the problem solving can be tough for the bears at the Discovery Center, they usually manage to pry open, squash, or mangle a food container given them, but certain coolers made by Yeti Coolers and by…
Glacier National Parks rangers accidentally kill black bear with a cracker shell

May 29, 2009

Ralph Maughan

How could this happen? You don’t try to hit the bear/wolf, whatever. Did the shell not explode and the bear ate it? ! Bear killed after hazing effort. By the Associated Press
Grizzly bear carcass found gutted and skinned north of Columbia Falls, MT

May 26, 2009

Ralph Maughan

Illegal grizzly bear kill found in NW Montana. FWP investigates. Billings Gazette. Update 5/28/2009. More about grizzly bears in the same general area (actually about 10 miles southwest). Grizzlies roaming east valley. The Daily Inter Lake.
The Fate of the Yellowstone Grizzly

May 14, 2009

Brian Ertz

It’s Time to Put the Great Bear Back on the Endangered Species List Doug Peacock writes a compelling – and moving – essay in support of restoring ESA protections to the Yellowstone Grizzly : The Fate of the Yellowstone Grizzly – Counterpunch The Yellowstone grizzly bear population is once again in serious trouble. During 2008,…
New grizzly bear plans released for Selkirk and Cabinet Mountains

May 6, 2009

Ralph Maughan

Comments will be taken until June 22- Grizzly protection proposed. Plan would limit public’s access. Becky Kramer. Spokesman-Review It is irritating that the headline for the new plan to save the grizzlies in these two disjunctive grizzly populations of northern Idaho and NW Montana should be negative in tone. After a brief look at the…
Doug and Andrea Peacock on Montana’s Grizzly Bears, the Late Edward Abbey and the Fight to Save the Wilderness

April 23, 2009

Ken Cole

Democracy Now!, broadcasting from Bozeman, MT, interviews Doug and Andrea Peacock. Doug & Andrea Peacock on Montana’s Grizzly Bears, the Late Edward Abbey and the Fight to Save the Wilderness Democracy Now! JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. Doug Peacock, I’d like to ask you, you’ve been, in some of your writing and in your interviews of late,…
Researchers blame grizzly deaths on hunters, climate change

April 17, 2009

Ralph Maughan

Grizzlies are expanding their range due to the death of whitebark pine and they increasingly get shot- Researchers blame grizzly deaths on hunters, climate change. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press Fortunately the evidence seems to be that their population around Yellowstone is still growing.

‎”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

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”
Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”
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