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  • Montana bird hunter mauled by grizzly bear

    Ralph Maughan

    This was not a greater Yellowstone grizzly, but a NCDE griz. He apparently came across the grizzly who was in a “day bed.” Story. Billings Gazette News Services. Updates 10/18. Hunter recalls grizzly attack while he was bird hunting. AP Pheasant hunters: Beware of bears [on the Flathead Indian Reservation]. By Vince Devlin. Missoulian

  • Wyoming hunters kill 4 grizzly bears . . . all related to elk hunting

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is a shocker from the Casper Star Tribune today. Wyoming hunters kill four [or more] grizzlies. By Whitney Royster. Casper Star-Tribune environmental reporter. The grizzly no longer has federal protection in Wyoming (delisted). Wyoming’s penalties are lighter (on paper), but the high federal penalties were almost never levied. The outcome of this, assuming it…

  • NCDE grizzly bear study deserves assured funding

    Ralph Maughan

    The Northern Continental Divide ecosystem in northwest central Montana is the second largest grizzly population in the lower 48 states. It consists of Glacier National Park, the Great Bear, Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and several million acres of adjacent roaded and unroaded, public and private land. A sophisticated population size study…

  • Yellowstone moose use roads to outsmart grizzly bears

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker has a short and interesting blog as to how the presence of roads affects the interaction of predators and prey. Yellowstone moose use roads to outsmart grizzly bears. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. Update: I just found this. It’s the same story with a somewhat different slant on the matter. It’s from Science…

  • Alberta said to be ready to save its grizzly bears

    Ralph Maughan

    Gov’t to launch grizzly recovery plan. Long-awaited action comes as surveys suggest Alberta home to fewer than 400 bears. Darcy Henton, The Edmonton Journal. Montana and Wyoming both have more grizzlies than the entire province of Alberta.

  • Two more hunters mauled by grizzlies, with one griz dead, north of Yellowstone Park

    Ralph Maughan

    This makes the third and the fourth incident of the year between grizzlies and hunters just north of Yellowstone Park. All four have been separate incidents. The toll is 4 mauled hunters and two dead female grizzlies with cubs. One attack was west of Beattie Gulch, and was probably the same bear that mauled Dustin…

  • Grizzly that mauled Yellowstone Park employee while he was hunting has been found dead

    Ralph Maughan

    He did shoot the bear, and many assumed it would die. They were right. It was found in Little Trail Creek near Gardiner, Montana with part of its jaw blasted off. It had one or two year cubs which are still in the area. Story in the Billings Gazette.

  • Servheen impressed by Selkirk grizzly's journey to north central Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Chris Servheen is the grizzly bear recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Here is the story in the Missoulian. By Michael Jamison.

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