Kathie Lynch has sent a report for June 17-23, 2007. It follows. Thanks Kathie! There is not too much to report from Yellowstone right now as the wolf watching has been pretty quiet. We see the occasional Agate Creek adult traveling by in their traditional Antelope Creek den area. And, we have occasional Slough Creek…
Here is yet another bear killed because of the actions of bad campers. Grand Teton biologists euthanize problem black bear. Billings Gazette.
It is possible to pet black bears if they are full, happy and completely unafraid of humans. The same bear could injure someone a couple days later when it is frustrated, hungry, or maybe has something like a sore tooth. Story from Colorado. Wildlife Officials Kill Bear In Contact With Human. Colorado DOW Wanted To…
It looks like the Forest Service is being super careful now. Story in Salt Lake Tribune. . . . and here is a Tribune editorial. Wildlife encounters: Develop and learn strategies for survival
There is an emerging controversy in Oregon. Hundreds of bears are killed each year for the timber industry because some bears damage trees. A man stumbled upon what they had been hiding. Man stumbles upon bears killed during tree damage season. KGW.com . . . and the followup Oregon to bury remains of bears killed…
“The grandfather of an 11-year-old boy who was killed by a black bear blamed authorities today for not warning that the hulking animal was believed to have harassed another group of campers at the same site hours earlier.” Story in the Statesman-Journal.
About 11 PM last night, a rouge black bear tore open a tent an 11-year old boy was sleeping in. A half hour later searchers found his remains 400 yards away. Dogs are tracked down the large black bear and it was shot. The killing took place in American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains…
Jim Cole, who was mauled by a grizzly bear near Trout Creek in Yellowstone Park’s Hayden Valley, has been released from the hospital. Bear attack victim released. By Gazette News Services post 1187
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.