A 700 pound grizzly (huge for the interior Rocky Mountains) was hit and killed by a pickup truck on Highway 200 not far from Lincoln, Montana. This is in the NCDE grizzly recovery area, not the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Story: Pickup truck kills 700-pound griz near Lincoln. By John Cramer. Missoulian – – – –…
This was not a greater Yellowstone grizzly, but a NCDE griz. He apparently came across the grizzly who was in a “day bed.” Story. Billings Gazette News Services. Updates 10/18. Hunter recalls grizzly attack while he was bird hunting. AP Pheasant hunters: Beware of bears [on the Flathead Indian Reservation]. By Vince Devlin. Missoulian
Here is a shocker from the Casper Star Tribune today. Wyoming hunters kill four [or more] grizzlies. By Whitney Royster. Casper Star-Tribune environmental reporter. The grizzly no longer has federal protection in Wyoming (delisted). Wyoming’s penalties are lighter (on paper), but the high federal penalties were almost never levied. The outcome of this, assuming it…
The Northern Continental Divide ecosystem in northwest central Montana is the second largest grizzly population in the lower 48 states. It consists of Glacier National Park, the Great Bear, Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and several million acres of adjacent roaded and unroaded, public and private land. A sophisticated population size study…
Rocky Barker has a short and interesting blog as to how the presence of roads affects the interaction of predators and prey. Yellowstone moose use roads to outsmart grizzly bears. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. Update: I just found this. It’s the same story with a somewhat different slant on the matter. It’s from Science…
Gov’t to launch grizzly recovery plan. Long-awaited action comes as surveys suggest Alberta home to fewer than 400 bears. Darcy Henton, The Edmonton Journal. Montana and Wyoming both have more grizzlies than the entire province of Alberta.
After all the bears coming into town and the very rare shooting of a central Idaho grizzly over bait, Idaho’s biggest newspaper comes out against the continuation of bear baiting. Luring bears goes against common sense
The grizzly bear that was killed by a bear hunter in a vast backcountry area near Kelly Creek migrated there from the beleaguered bear population in the Selkirk Mountains of extreme northern Idaho. That’s the part of Idaho called “The Panhandle”. DNA tests showed that the big healthy bear came from the Selkirks. Grizzlies there,…
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.