Bears
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Judge Orders Bush Administration to Decide Polar Bears’ Status by May 15. VOA. The Bush Administration was pressured into considering the polar bear for endangered species status, and their strategy has been to prolong the consideration while the bears decline, oil leases are let, and their own time in office runs out. A federal judge…
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Alberta suspends grizzly hunt for the fourth year pending the results of a five year study. The Canadian Press.
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Bears in Jackson Hole are searching for food near homes. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily. A “group of bears” (probably a sow and three large cubs) has been near homes around the east boundary of Grand Teton National Park. They are also quite far south for Jackson Hole, and they are especially hungry because…
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Here is some good news. Back to the long-running controversy over massive coal and coal methane development just north of the Montana border in the wild country of British Columbia near Glacier National and Waterton National Parks . . . Fernie, B.C. officials pass resolution opposing methane development. By Susan Gallagher. AP.
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Photogenic grizzly family making last show together. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Grand Teton biologist says mother No. 399 is likely to send her cubs off on their own in a few weeks.
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Record number of grizzly bears were killed in British Columbia last year. By Mark Hume. The Globe and Mail. Usually about 300 grizzlies are taken. In 2007 it was 430. Is this sustainable?
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Grizzly bears are showing up in the high arctic and polar bears wandering south of the Arctic Circle. These 3 starving polar bears were shot when they discovered food in a village far inland. Lost polar bears hit NWT town. Animals’ arrival hundreds of kilometres south of habitat seen as sign of climate change. By…
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Oil politics alleged in polar bear decision. San Francisco Chronicle. This story is up on many on-line places today.