Oct 04 2011
An interesting report from the Missoulian . . . Like a bucket filled beyond its brim, Montana’s wild spaces are spilling grizzly bears. In August, a homeowner’s remote camera recorded a 250-pound grizzly bear foraging along Ashley Creek – two blocks from the state Fish, Wildlife and Parks regional headquarters in Kalispell. “The pool’s closed [...]
Jun 18 2011
An interesting press release posted to Glacier Park’s web site yesterday . . . Glacier National Park is participating in a long-term interagency program to monitor the trend of the grizzly bear population in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. Bait stations, automated cameras, and traps will be used to capture and monitor grizzly bears within [...]
Jun 16 2011
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . An ongoing grizzly bear population trend study got off to a good start this year with three bears being captured and fitted with radio collars in the North Fork Flathead drainage. But that’s just the start of trapping efforts that will carry on for the next few [...]
Jun 15 2011
This Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks press release, posted today on the Flathead Beacon web site, is a North Fork-specific follow-up on the grizzly bear monitoring effort announced three weeks ago: Grizzly bear population capture efforts for monitoring in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) have concluded in the North Fork Drainage. Three bears were [...]
May 25 2011
Yet another sign of spring is this recent press release from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks . . . As part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE), Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, the US Fish & Wildlife Service [...]
Nov 20 2008
From the Thursday, November 20, 2008 online edition of the Hungry Horse News . . . It’s been a fairly good year for grizzly bears in the greater Glacier Park area. This year 11 bears were killed due to human circumstances, according to figures provided by Chris Servheen, the grizzly bear recovery coordinator for the [...]
Sep 17 2008
The estimate is in: There were 765 grizzly bears roaming the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem during the summer of 2004.
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Sep 16 2008
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…
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