Bears
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Experts say grizzlies could suffer. Some biologists worry that bears aren’t genetically diverse enough for delisting. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide. This has been known for quite a while. The solution seems simple to me, although the anti-introduction extremists who now dominate the Dept. of Interior, and the grizzly bear purists, won’t…
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Defenders never seems to get credit for its program that reimburses ranchers for livestock losses to wolves. Ever fewer know they pay for losses to grizzly bears (except in Wyoming where the Game and Fish Department runs a “gravy train” for ranchers who say the lost livestock to grizzlies). Should Defenders continue paying for bears…
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After 30 years, the grizzlies of the Greater Yellowstone are to be delisted, but there are 5 other populations of grizzlies in the lower 48 states. They are years away from delisting, even the largest, those of the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem (Glacier NP, Bob Marshall Wilderness and surrounding lands). Grizzlies in northcentral Montana might…
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This is from the Casper Star Tribune. By Brodie Farquhar. It is important to note that so far all we have seen is the government’s news release. The actual delisting rule has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
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The Department of Interior announced the removal of the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone from the “threatened species list” today. Recent developments such as the huge die-off of whitebark pine, whose nuts the grizzlies depend heavily upon, make this decision wrong. “Chuck Schwartz, U.S. Geological Survey interagency grizzly bear study team leader, said human-caused…
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The National Wildlife Federation has paid to buy out Stanko’s Bacon Creek grazing allotment on the Bridger-Teton national forest, which is home to very important elk, deer, bighorn sheep, moose and pronghorn habitat as well as grizzly bears and 3 wolf packs. The buyout was voluntary. Story in the Billings Gazette. Deal expands wildlife habitat.…
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Good news on the McNeil River bears? Close Call For Alaska’s Famous Bears. State Considers, And Rejects, Allowing Hunters Access To Sanctuary’s People-Friendly Brown Bear. CBS News.
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This is related to the proposed listing of the polar bear, something that has a lot to do with climate change. The New York Times got a copy of a USFWS memo, and it shows the DOI’s continuing subordination of science to Administration politics — employees need authorization to speak about the issue. Here is…