Alberta grizzlies down to just 580 bears

Will they become a Canadian threatened species?
by Ralph Maughan, wolves.wordpress.com

To many Americans, Canada is still the “great white north” where multitudes of wildlife live in wilderness and “tree huggers” silly enough to want to see a bear or a wolf can go a see one behind almost every tree.
The reality is massive development, and especially [...]

Hayduke Lives!!

Democracy Now was recorded in Bozeman, Montana yesterday. Bozeman is just outside Yellowstone National Park. Bozeman was where we’d drive for groceries and other supplies when I was volunteering with the Buffalo Field Campaign, so I consider it one of my many home towns. It’s also where I saw Micheal Franti and Spearhead. That was [...]

Alberta Government May Leave Grizzly Bears Behind

-Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
It appears that the Alberta government is backing away from more than five years of collaborative stakeholder work to protect Alberta’s grizzly bears.
In an interview with the Edmonton Journal on October 3, 2008, George Hamilton, a priority species manager with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, stated “there’s a good chance they’re (grizzly [...]

Alberta Government downgrades grizzly plan

(One only needs look at the tarsands to realize that the government of Alberta has no problem exterminating not only bears, caribou, wolves, bison, and moose but more importantly, indigenous communities. We hope a powerful resistance movement is being built in that province. It sure needs it.)
Hanneke Brooymans, The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON – The provincial government [...]

Grizzly bear sighting confirmed on Vancouver Island

-Times Colonist
A weekend sighting of a grizzly bear on northern Vancouver Island has wildlife officials concluding the large carnivores have migrated from the mainland and are likely here to stay.

Wild Bear Targeted For Birth Control Plan

(Although it is mentioned in the article, some things can never be said enough. DEAL WITH YOUR DAMN GARBAGE AND YOU WON”T HAVE BEAR PROBLEMS!!!)
Clare Ogilvie, Canwest News Service
WHISTLER — A controversial plan to put a wild bear on birth control has stirred up a hornet’s nest in this resort community.
Jeanie, a large black bear [...]

Grizzly bear hunt on hold due to declining population

by James Stevenson, The Canadian Press
CALGARY — Alberta will continue to suspend its controversial spring grizzly bear hunt into 2009 amid growing evidence that numbers of the iconic carnivore are significantly lower than earlier estimates.
But the province’s Sustainable Resource Development Minister Ted Morton won’t order a status review of the grizzly – which could see [...]

Grizzly found in polar bear country

High-Arctic sighting more evidence of population’s spread northward
Ed Struzik, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Sunday, February 03
EDMONTON – Charles Francis was flying across Melville Island in the High Arctic conducting a shorebird survey with two other biologists last summer when they spotted what they thought was a polar bear feeding on a muskox.
This, however, was one dirty [...]

Beginning of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?

(When it comes to grizzlies, no one is more of an authority than Doug Peacock. Peacock was a friend of Ed Abbey, and the inspiration for the character ‘Hayduke’ in his novels.)
Playing Politics with Endangered Species
Beginning of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?
By DOUG PEACOCK
On March 29, 2007, the Department of the Interior removed federal [...]

‘Polargrizz’ goes to Idaho

Trophy hunter takes home first known grizzly-polar bear cross
Joel Kom, The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON – The stuffed carcass of the world’s first known cross between a polar bear and a grizzly is on its way to the Idaho home of a wealthy American hunter who killed the animal this spring.
Jim Martell shot the bear in April [...]