When Bears Steal Human Food, Mom’s Not To Blame. ScienceDaily. Cubs can learn it on their own or from watch unrelated bears.
Alaskan gov’t wants to find scientists who will study polar bears to prove they’re not threatened by global warming. UPI Would these scientists be paid no compensation if they didn’t find what the Republican legislators want? That is not how real science is conducted — EVER.
Judge Orders Bush Administration to Decide Polar Bears’ Status by May 15. VOA. The Bush Administration was pressured into considering the polar bear for endangered species status, and their strategy has been to prolong the consideration while the bears decline, oil leases are let, and their own time in office runs out. A federal judge…
Bears in Jackson Hole are searching for food near homes. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily. A “group of bears” (probably a sow and three large cubs) has been near homes around the east boundary of Grand Teton National Park. They are also quite far south for Jackson Hole, and they are especially hungry because…
Great news for those who love Bear Lake on the Utah/Idaho border!! Citing environmental worries, Gov. rejects Bear Lake hydroelectric plan. By Patty Henetz. The Salt Lake Tribune
Record number of grizzly bears were killed in British Columbia last year. By Mark Hume. The Globe and Mail. Usually about 300 grizzlies are taken. In 2007 it was 430. Is this sustainable?
Proposed Bear Lake pump project has few supporters. Many worry energy project could alter the lake’s natural beauty. By Arrin Newton Brunson. Salt Lake Tribune, and Local Environmentalist Speaks Out Against Bear Lake Hydroelectric Proposal. Most folks in SE Idaho and Northern Utah are well aware of Bear Lake, a long and very deep lake…
Biologists push for action on grizzly plan. Bear population continues in decline despite 2002 warning in report. Darcy Henton, The Edmonton Journal. Perhaps only 500 grizzlies are left in this vast province, fewer than the Bob Marshall/Glacier National Park grizzly recovery area* just to the south of Alberta. _____ *Officially named the Northern Continental Divide…
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.