Usually the news is another bear killed in conflict with people, but today news of a bear/bear conflict mortality . . . Grizzly killed in bear fight. By Gazette News Services
Given the recent query in comments about feeding the hungry bears, Randy Hampton from the Colorado Division of Wildlife sent me this. – – – Why Feeding Stations for Bears Won’t Work By Perry Will and Randy Hampton Recent media reports have highlighted the challenges facing black bears this year. A late frost that eliminated…
Bear Cub Wanders Into Driggs [Idaho] Airport. KIFI Local News 8. Black bear family stops traffic on Greenough Drive in Missoula. By Chelsi Moy. The Missoulian. Bear managers capture 10 grizzlies in northwest Montana. Daily InterLake (Kalispell, MT)
Drought, lack of food, forcing central Idaho bears out of woods. By Todd Adams. Challis Messenger. Another story about this years “wayward” bears. This time it is not from a larger newspaper, but the Challis Messenger in Challis, pop. 1000. Photo of the cub in the story above.
Boise Black bear rehabilitation facility expects busy year. Idaho Statesman. AP Sally Maughan has been doing a great job for a number of years running this facility. Link to Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation.
Wardens save bears from fire. AP in the Billings Gazette Related story (due to the comments that have been). Black bear comes to Bozeman. In fact, the Bozeman paper has about 2 or 3 black bear in town stories every year.
Another bit of bad news regarding bear. Yellowstone National Park safety manager, Ken Meyer, was injured by what is believed to be a grizzly bear along Little Trail Creek. He was hunting for black bear. Grizzly suspected in attack on park safety manager Mike Stark Billings Gazette
Maryland Family Fights Off Bear. 134-Pound Sow Is First to Test Positive for Rabies in State. By Joe Holley. Washington Post.
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.