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  • Drought, lack of food, forcing central Idaho bears out of woods

    Ralph Maughan

    Drought, lack of food, forcing central Idaho bears out of woods. By Todd Adams. Challis Messenger. Another story about this years “wayward” bears. This time it is not from a larger newspaper, but the Challis Messenger in Challis, pop. 1000. Photo of the cub in the story above.

  • Boise Black bear rehabilitation facility expects busy year

    Ralph Maughan

    Boise Black bear rehabilitation facility expects busy year. Idaho Statesman. AP Sally Maughan has been doing a great job for a number of years running this facility. Link to Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation.

  • Wardens save bears from fire

    Ralph Maughan

    Wardens save bears from fire. AP in the Billings Gazette Related story (due to the comments that have been). Black bear comes to Bozeman.  In fact, the Bozeman paper has about 2 or 3 black bear in town stories every year.

  • Critics hate Idaho hunting ranch's guts

    Ralph Maughan

    In an exclusive story today, the Idaho Falls Post Register (subscription only) revealed that one of those controversial elk shooting farms in Eastern Idaho (this time one really close to Yellowstone) was dumping the remains over the fence and attracting a large number of grizzly bears, one of which may have recently mauled a real…

  • Thanks to "B.E." for editing my blog while I was gone

    Ralph Maughan

    I took a ten day trip to western Idaho, north central Idaho and western Montana, with more time in or near Glacier National Park because, other than McCall (western Idaho), Glacier was the only place not covered with heavy forest fire smoke. These forest fires are clearly going to burn until snowfall, putting out lots…

  • Another hunter felled by grizzly near Gardiner, Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Hunter survives grizzly attack. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press writer. This is a new incident in the same general area and with different bears. On the 9th a Yellowstone Park employee who was hunting black bears was mauled by a grizzly too in the Gardiner area. . . . . more. I have learned that…

  • Yellowstone safety manager mauled by bear

    Brian Ertz

    Another bit of bad news regarding bear. Yellowstone National Park safety manager, Ken Meyer, was injured by what is believed to be a grizzly bear along Little Trail Creek. He was hunting for black bear. Grizzly suspected in attack on park safety manager Mike Stark Billings Gazette

  • Selway-Bitterroot Grizzly Shot

    Brian Ertz

    A guided hunter from Tennessee accidently shot a Grizzly in Central Idaho while baiting for black bear. Idaho Statesman: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are investigating the killing of a large grizzly bear in north-central Idaho, where the last confirmed sighting of the species was in…

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