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Grizzlies
09Mar
WGFD issues proposed grizzly hunt regulations
The Wyoming Game & Fish Department has released their proposed grizzly bear hunt regulations.
16Aug
GYE GRIZZLY MORTALITIES 2017
Causes of mortality are so far comparable to last year’s – 35% of mortality from management “removals”, 24% under investigation, and 18% due to road kill.
10Aug
Why Montana shouldn’t hurry to hunt its recovering grizzlies
Rick Bass asks an important question: What’s the hurry? That’s how mistakes get made.
01Aug
Wyoming Is In Charge of Its Grizzlies
Bad news: Wyoming, Idaho and Montana can now call themselves grizzly bear managers.
11Jan
Grizzly Delisting Delayed!
GRIZZLY DELISTING: DECISION DELAYED!!! {Updated} MORE INFO ON GRIZZLY DELISTING DECISION DELAY WWA contacted Ryan Moehring at the public affairs office of the USFWS about the announced delay and we were told the following: 1) Getting the Conservation Strategy in place took longer than anticipated; and 2) Reviewing 650,000+ comments, many of which were substantive […]
20Nov
Yellowstone National Park Lone Dissenter To Plan For Managing Grizzly Bears If They Are Delisted From ESA
by Kurt Repanshek/National Parks Traveler | NOVEMBER 20, 2016 Just one vote against a conservation strategy intended to see that grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem thrive after they lose Endangered Species Act protections was voiced, and that came from the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, the core of the ecosystem and heart of […]
Sierra Club: Grizzly mortality limits flawed
by Mike Koshmrl/Jackson Hole News & Guide | NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Conservation groups worry that high death rates of boar grizzlies in a post-delisting world will not be captured by population models and that bear numbers will unknowingly fall into decline as a result. Modeling conducted by former federal grizzly researcher David Mattson and distributed […]
07Nov
Article highlights Nat’l Park Service issues with grizzly delisting process
This article highlights some of the problems with the current status of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear delisting process. The article comprehensively addresses the issues that most concern Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk, who is quoted extensively and is one of the most outspoken critics of the delisting plan. Superintendent Wenk is certainly […]
First lawsuit of the “grizzly war” filed
In the first legal skirmish since the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed delisting the grizzly bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a lawsuit has been filed against the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Commission that oversees it’s affairs.
Iconic places under threat from climate change
A new report from UNESCO, the Union of Concerned Scientists and UNEP says some World Heritage sites — including Yellowstone National Park — are under “dire threat from climate change”, and some may be damaged beyond saving. “America’s Yellowstone National Park is also seeing firsthand effects of climate change as warmer winters have led to […]