Grizzly Bear Status

[mightyhunter]

http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/13058-keeping-an-eye-on-grizzly-bears

An informative read on the current status of the grizzly bear in the GYE.

 

[nfh]

Good info! I just always disagree with one statement and that is the white bark pines. AS much time as I spend in the mountains I see the bears go to town with the moths. I see that their biggest food source is a wolf kill. its a easy snack. Wolves kill for food and just to plain kill and leave meat behind. That's less work for the bear and a free snack

I spend just about every month in the high country and have seen bears every month of the winter eating on a winter kill. They hibernate and then smell a dead elk and get a easy snack.


But im sure some bears hit the whitebark pines but I haven't seen it be a main food source like some of the enviro's reports make it to be.


We sure are getting a lot of grizzlys around here. A guy really needs to watch his back when he gets a elk down. Every year we have a run in with a bear trying to get on the kill or into camp..

 

[mightyhunter]

http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/13615-public-divided-on-grizzly-delisting

A recent meeting of all the powers that be on the issue of grizzly bears in the GYA. I thought Frank van Manen,of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team,summed it up best. He said "We're packing more sardines into the same can". That about sums it up.
just sayin..mh

 

[mightyhunter]

http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyl...cle_1bed4add-273e-5e16-86c3-e77c0f92d028.html
They are identifying these as Wyoming bears. The article is interesting.
just sayin..mh