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  • "Feds assure grizzly progress"

    Ralph Maughan

    “SUNDANCE — Depending on how potential litigation plays out, management of the grizzly bear could be back in the hands of state officials — and the bear itself back in the gunsights of hunters — by 2008.” That’s progress? It seems return to state management of endangered or threatened species always means “now we get…

  • Elk hunter kills recently relocated grizzly near Togwotee Pass

    Ralph Maughan

    This has been an extremely good year for grizzly bear survival in both the Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem (Glacier NP, Bob Marshall Wilderness and vicinity). This story is one exception. The matter is under investigation to see if elk hunter Ken Meade killed the recently relocated grizzly by mistake, in self…

  • Results of long awaited grizzly bear count are out

    Ralph Maughan

    How many grizzlies live in the Northern Continental Divide ecoystem (that’s Glacier National Park and about 6-million adjaccent acres)? A massive first-of-its-kind DNA study was undertaken several years ago using this new method which avoids the pitfalls of direct observation plus interpolation which has been the past method. The Daily InterLake reports today the number…

  • Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears soon to be delisted

    Ralph Maughan

    The grizzly bear recovery in the Greater Yellowstone has been a great success, but most activists I know fear for its long run future, not because it isn’t really recovered, but because every predictable trend about the grizzly bear’s habitat points downward. In addition, habitat corridors allowing dispersal to central Idaho and Northern Montana have…

  • Birth control to limit bear population won't work.

    Ralph Maughan

    A lot of folks in New Jersey would rather try to control the state’s burgeoning bear population with bear birth control rather than hunting. A study indicates birth control is not very effective and it is costly. Read the article at Carnivore Conservation.

  • Montana study shows bears are the biggest predator of elk calves

    Ralph Maughan

    The study was conducted in the Garnet Range, east of Missoula, MT. However, a study reported over the last several years in Yellowstone Park showed the same thing, although there it was grizzly bears, not black bears. If we look over at Idaho, one of the criticisms of Idaho Fish and Game’s “science” in their…

  • Despite media spin that the Rock Creek Mine will actually help grizzly bears, "Wild Bill dissents.

    Ralph Maughan

    I put up a brief story on this last week. Many mainstream media stories simply said “Mine to benefit grizzly bear” as though the bears might gain nourishment from the tailings. Wild Bill writes that the Rock Creek Mine Decision Sells Off Grizzly’s Future. New West.

  • Wild Bill writes about "Thinking Grizzly" and says "Hunters should do more of it.

    Ralph Maughan

    Wild Bill’s column in New West. I should add that so far this year, grizzly encounters of all kinds seem to be way down although their population is not. Much of the credit may go to the good whitebark pine nut crop that appeared in many places.

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