A study says cave bears killed by Ice Age, not hunters- I didn’t know that the huge cave bears were vegetarians. Changing climate wiped out their food. Story on the extinction of cave bears. By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent. Reuters.
Attack on timber worker came next to an operating helicopter- Grizzly attack on forest worker baffles experts. Bear was not deterred by helicopter at logging camp; victim is in hospital. Sandra McCulloch, Times Colonist
Most recent grizzly death is 11th this year. By Vince Devlin of the Missoulian
Grizzly bear managers are the largest source of bear mortality in NW Montana- ‘Management removals’ top cause of NW bear deaths. AP. Bozeman Chronicle. One third of the deaths came at the hands of the managers. In second place was illegal shootings, about 15% of the deaths. – – – – – Other Montana bear…
Population augmentation program struck blow- Second Cabinet grizzly killed. Published: Tuesday, November 4, 2008. By JIM MANN. The Daily Interake One was hit by a train; the other one was illegally shot. It was not all for naught. They had offspring and their offspring had offspring.
More grizzly bear deaths. Mortality quota exceeded for male and female bears in Greater Yellowstone- States can’t manage grizzlies and they should be relisted- Two grizzly bear cubs shot in NW Wyoming. AP. Oct. 27 The brief article doesn’t mention the ESA implications, but my earlier post certainly leads to the conclusion that both male…
Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Bear population doing OK (but bear mortality up)- Male grizzly death limits have been exceeded this year- BOZEMAN – The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) comprised of state and federal agencies that monitor grizzly bear population trends in the Yellowstone Ecosystem, reports there were 44 unduplicated females with cubs of the…
Payout for wolf and bear losses in Montana in 2008. Losses are trivial- Some “large” claims are yet to be paid, but this certainly isn’t much — $22,000. Millions of middle income, individual Americans have seen their retirement decline that much this year. This year the tally includes payments for bears as well as wolves…
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.