Bears
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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After all the bears coming into town and the very rare shooting of a central Idaho grizzly over bait, Idaho’s biggest newspaper comes out against the continuation of bear baiting. Luring bears goes against common sense
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The grizzly bear that was killed by a bear hunter in a vast backcountry area near Kelly Creek migrated there from the beleaguered bear population in the Selkirk Mountains of extreme northern Idaho. That’s the part of Idaho called “The Panhandle”. DNA tests showed that the big healthy bear came from the Selkirks. Grizzlies there,…