North Fork Preservation Association » bear study http://www.gravel.org News and information about the NFPA and the North Fork of the Flathead River Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New griz study to focus on rub trees http://www.gravel.org/2009/05/12/new-griz-study-to-focus-on-rub-trees/ http://www.gravel.org/2009/05/12/new-griz-study-to-focus-on-rub-trees/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 18:29:16 +0000 nfpa http://www.gravel.org/?p=479 Another sure sign of spring: A new bear study.

From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . .

A new and expansive effort to monitor the Northern Continental Divide’s grizzly bear population will capitalize on a creature comfort for bears: the irresistible urge to scratch their backs on trees.

The research project mainly will be aimed at determining whether collecting hair samples from rub trees over three successive years can provide a reliable measure of whether the region’s grizzly population is stable, growing or shrinking.

It will be led by Kate Kendall, the U.S. Geological Survey scientist who spearheaded two previous grizzly bear population studies based on genetic analysis of bear hair.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2009/05/12/new-griz-study-to-focus-on-rub-trees/feed/ 0 DNA study doubles bear census http://www.gravel.org/2008/09/17/dna-study-doubles-bear-census/ http://www.gravel.org/2008/09/17/dna-study-doubles-bear-census/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:39:05 +0000 nfpa http://98.131.199.205/?p=172 Here’s a better article on the recently completed grizzly bear DNA study. Yesterday’s AP write-up was a little thin.

From the Wednesday, September 17, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

The estimate is in: There were 765 grizzly bears roaming the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem during the summer of 2004.

That’s the official result of an ambitious and unprecedented genetic study of the largest grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states. The study will be published in the January edition of the Journal of Wildlife Management.

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]]> http://www.gravel.org/2008/09/17/dna-study-doubles-bear-census/feed/ 0 Federal Study Says Grizzlies Thriving in Montana http://www.gravel.org/2008/09/16/federal-study-says-grizzlies-thriving-in-montana/ http://www.gravel.org/2008/09/16/federal-study-says-grizzlies-thriving-in-montana/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:29:52 +0000 nfpa http://98.131.199.205/?p=171 From the Tuesday, September 16, 2008 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .

The majestic grizzly bear, once king of the Western wilderness but threatened with extinction for a third of a century, has roared back in Montana…

Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey announced Tuesday that there are approximately 765 bears in northwestern Montana. That’s the largest population of grizzly bears documented there in more than 30 years, and a sign that the species could be at long last rebounding.

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