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Post by brobear on Oct 9, 2018 13:08:12 GMT -5
Original Numbers and Distribution: Unknown. Perhaps as many as 250,000 lived in the western half of the continent, with 50,000 to 100,000 of these south of Canada.
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Post by brobear on Oct 9, 2018 13:20:46 GMT -5
Current Numbers and Distibution: Alaska holds 20,000 to 35,000, and Canada 20,000 to 30,000. The lower forty-eight states have roughly 1,000 to 1,300 distributed among 5 separate locales: 1 - Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ( the Yellowstone National Park area of northern Wyoming, southern Montana, and eastern Idaho ): 400 to 600 animals, possibly more. 2 - Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem ( the Glacier National Park area of Montana ): 400 to 600 animals. 3 - Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem ( northwestern Montana ): 10 to 35 animals. 4 - Selkirk Ecosystem ( northernmost Idaho ): 25 to 40 animals on the U.S. side of the international boundry; and 5 - North Cascades Ecosystem ( northern Washington ): 0 to 10 animals. Reliable counts have been difficult to obtain, and thus estimates remain open to dispute.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 0:29:38 GMT -5
I just wished more grizzlies roamed the united states again like they did many many years ago but sadly the hunting and lost of habitat have reduced their numbers dramatically. Some experts say that it could take 100 years for the population to get back to how it once was.
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Post by brobear on Oct 10, 2018 3:11:46 GMT -5
I just wished more grizzlies roamed the united states again like they did many many years ago but sadly the hunting and lost of habitat have reduced their numbers dramatically. Some experts say that it could take 100 years for the population to get back to how it once was. It would take the extinction of humanity to return to what it was prior to the Euro-American invasion of the Wild West.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 4:02:40 GMT -5
I just wished more grizzlies roamed the united states again like they did many many years ago but sadly the hunting and lost of habitat have reduced their numbers dramatically. Some experts say that it could take 100 years for the population to get back to how it once was. It would take the extinction of humanity to return to what it was prior to the Euro-American invasion of the Wild West. I agree with you.
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Post by brobear on Oct 10, 2018 7:58:48 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. Status: Listed since 1975 as threatened in the lower 48 under the Endangered Species Act. Bottom Line: Reliable information about the natural history of the grizzly was unavailable before the brothers John and Frank Craighead carried out their ground-breaking studies in Yellowstone National Park. They didn't start until 1959, more than a century and a half after this giant carnivore was first reported by white explorers. With help from technology such as satellite monitoring and DNA analysis, new information is being compiled far more quickly today. But scientists have a great deal left to learn about one of the most complex mammals in existence, and the public's conception is still based largely on old-fashioned, hair-raising yarns.
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Post by brobear on Oct 10, 2018 9:46:39 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. ( Doug Chadwick reflecting back to himself as a preteen boy )... From the advanture books and sportsmen's magazines heaped in my room, I'd gathered that people in the woods were always having ripsnorting run-ins with grizzly bears. For hardcore outdoorsmen, it was practically an obligation. If there were such things as average-sized grizzlies, I'd never heard about any, only about awesome grizzlies - that was the stock term - weighing at least half a ton. A tower of gut-crunching terror every time. With red eyes that glowed like embers. Crazed with bloodlust. Slavering foamy spit. I figured some of this was what Dad would call happy horseshit, but a lot of it must be true. How else could so many adults wind up with the same stories of humongous, berserker bears? Besides, I didn't have much else to go on.
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Post by brobear on Oct 10, 2018 10:17:49 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. My interest in the great bears only expanded as the years went by. And the more time I spent observing the animals, the more I found myself wondering whether people - whatever their stated intentions - would ever really allow beasts of such dimensions to be restored, and if so, how? I wound up making a sort of subcareer out of looking for answers. I imposed upon resource managers in their offices and researchers deep in the field, sought out the salmon streams and other settings where bears were said to have grown fairly used to observers, and got to know a couple of bear movie stars and asked their trainers for insight. I even went to circuses and watched bicycling bears. For the most part, I just kept roaming where grizzlies do. Toward the end of the 1990s, I was still out traversing wildlands from southern Yellowstone to the edge of the Arctic, when I found what I realized was some of the most inventive, revealing work being done on these animals anywhere. It was a high-stakes wager on the true nature of grizz, crucial to the species' recovery, and it was taking place at home in northwestern Montana, more or less in my backyard.
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Post by brobear on Oct 10, 2018 12:56:31 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. Along with their polar bear cousins, grizzlies are by far the biggest, strongest, predators in the New World. They can accelerate from zero to thirty or more miles per hour faster than a sports car, knock over elk with a left hook, or drag a 1,000-pound steer off into the woods to eat like so much take-out food. What, then, are they doing hanging around bird feeders and competing with finches? The answer begins with the fact that, while their origins and anatomy place them firmly within the carnivore order, grizzlies are consummate omnivores. With a remarkable knack for finagling hitched to their pile-driver strength, they come primed to take advantage of the most nourishing food available at any given time, be it moose, musk ox, marmot, lily bulb, crab, clam, snail, fish, mushroom, mountaintop moth aggregation, underground hornet nest, rotten carcass, fragrant herb, or freshly sprouted grass, which they will graze the livelong day in spring with all the spine-tingling drama of cows. Grizzlies own one of the longest intestinal tracts of any carnivore to help process plant roughage, and quite a few of these bears are chiefly vegetarian. As far as I know, the only large mammal able to pick up a broader menu is Homo sapiens. Some people eat grizz, for that matter. But then, the bears sometimes eat people, more or less evening things out. With the onset of Autumn, grizzlies enter a state known as hyperphagia. It means feeding in overdrive. They need to consume 20,000 to 30,000 calories and put on two to three pounds daily for at least a couple of months. Otherwise, they might not have sufficient energy reserves to see them through a denning period that, like the snowpack, can last half the year.
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Post by brobear on Oct 10, 2018 17:06:58 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. The grizzly is the North American version of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, the long-clawed, hump-shouldered species also found across Eurasia from the French Pyrenees to the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Some of the trained "grizzlies" that chase after pioneer kids in movies or buddy up with mountain men on television shows are actually Syrian brown bears, which also tend to have markedly silvertipped - grizzled - fur. During mountain man times, as many as 100,000 grizzlies may have roamed the contigupus states west of the Mississippi River. In 1975, the animals were listed as threatened south of Canada because 99 percent had been eliminated there. Standing shoulder to shoulder, the remainder would scarcely have filled a used car lot. Keystone predators, scavengers, earthmovers ( those four-inch claws are mainly for digging roots and rodents ), recyclers of nutrients, and distributors of seeds ( from as many as 70,000 berries a day in good times ), grizzlies play an outsize role in the natural communities of which they remain part. They command a similarly exaggerated niche in the human imagination. A majority of the public wants these ecological heavyweights and spawners of sagas, these mega-mammals, hauled back from the brink.
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Post by brobear on Oct 11, 2018 7:38:09 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. The truth is that no one knows how many grizzlies are scattered through the rugged boondocks they call home on this side of the Canadian line, and it is extremely difficult and expensive to try to find out. Population totals are fashioned from collected hair samples, which provide DNA, plus smaller numbers of actual sightings subjected to large amounts of statistical massage. Grizzlies may live thirty years or more, crisscrossing home ranges that typically encompass several hundred square miles and occasionally more than a thousand. Even the relative homebodies among them make lengthy forays as subadults dispersing from their mothers' domains. They also make strong shifts in altitude from one season to the next, rambling between thickly forested valley floors and sun-swept tundra meadows just off the peaks. And they may move to entirely new tracts as drought, wildfires, cyclical irruptions of insects, plant disease epidemics, and normal forest succession alter the habitat mix.
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Post by brobear on Oct 11, 2018 8:09:03 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. It has been a long time since Americas were able to homestead in vast, untamed tracts of land out West. Grizzlies no longer have that luxury either. Most parks and designated wilderness are too small to hold many such giants. Other preserves are too top-heavy; that is, they protect grand expanses of alpine scenery but end down where more fertile habitats start. Meanwhile - endangered species regulations notwithstanding - industry, real estate and mass recreation continue to extend their reach into previously remote countrysides. What this means is that the bears have little choice but to share landscapes with us to some extent even in the best of wild-food years. Competition is inevitable and conflicts unavoidable. The question is whether they can be kept to tolerable levels. Everyone always says that the long-term solution to complex issues lies in better education. Hunt and Manley were just taking the philosophy a step farther, tutoring animals that, like us, possess a lively intelligence and inquisitive nature along with the potential for monstrous behavior.
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Post by brobear on Oct 13, 2018 15:12:55 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. The North Fork is a National Wild & Scenic River, and the valley that holds it is long, heavily forested, and remote. Just across the border in southeasternmost British Columbia, the upper North Fork appears to hold the thickest concentration of grizzlies yet recorded in Canada's interior. The U.S. side may harbor more grizz per square mile than anyplace else in the Lower 48. Population density figures for this species vary dramatically from one range to the next. To me, this reinforces the notion that there is no such thing as a standard grizzly, for whenever you generalize about the animal's favorite kind of country or how often they encounter each other, you are bound to be way off for many a bear. Some tundra stretches of Alaska's North Slope and the Canadian Arctic support just one grizzly for every several hundred square miles. Yet along coastal terrain veined with streams that host a succession of salmon runs through summer and fall, biologists have recorded an average of between one and two grizzlies for each square mile. This is why even though it is still true that the great majority of occupied grizzly range lies in the continent's interior, at least half the grizzlies alive today are within about 100 miles of the Pacific. Hotspots such as Kodiak Island, the Alaska Peninsula, and Admiralty Island in the southeastern part of the forty-ninth state are the big-bear equivalents of New Delhi or teeming Hong Kong.
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Post by brobear on Oct 13, 2018 16:31:36 GMT -5
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick. Asked to name America's premier grizz country outside of Alaska, many Americans would say Yellowstone. The area has about one silvertip for every twenty to forty square miles. Key sections of the North Fork host one for every five to ten square miles. The valley also supports a robust cougar population, and it was here that natural recolonization of the western United States by wolves got under way, beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They share the terrain with lynx, bobcat, marten, fisher, wolverine, river otter, badger, mink, various weasels, coyote, red fox, and black bear. As ecologist John Weaver pointed out in a recent report, THe Transboundary Flathead, what emerges is a carnivore community "unmatched in North America for its variety, completeness, use of valley bottomlands, and density of species which are rare elsewhere."
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Post by brobear on Nov 9, 2018 2:33:38 GMT -5
The character of the grizzly has been greatly affected by humans. The grizzly of the old pioneer days was a more predatory and aggressive beast. Grizzly Years by Doug peacock. The Bitter Creek Grizzly was the only bear I knew of in Yellowstone that regularly killed moose and bison. He attacked younger animals - ambushed them from nearby timber, then dragged them back into the trees, sometimes covering the carcasses with dirt and sticks. I had seen this too many times to believe that these animals had all conveniently died during the winter. His was not the usual pattern of predation for grizzlies. In 1977, when I first crossed paths with the Bitter Creek Griz, a biologist had found another grizzly who had passed up many carcasses for live elk: The bear liked to kill what he ate. A few bears learn to kill healthy adult elk during all seasons, and cow-struck bulls during the rut were especially stupid and approachable. Yellowstone grizzlies also prey on elk calves, as they do caribou calves in Alaska, and moose calves in both places. Adult moose were generally a match for a grizzly except when snows were deep and lightly crusted: grizzlies can walk lightly over a thin crust, distributing their weight evenly on their plantigrade feet, and they glide over the top of deep drifts in which moose wallow.
I thought that grizzly predation was not as common here as it had been a decade or more ago. The predatory segment of the population had probably been killed off selectively, and continues to be culled as they were born into it, because predatory bears are bolder and more visible. The Bitter Creek Griz was a holdover from the days when bears could afford to be bold and aggressive. Which served, as it always had, an important ecological function vital to survival of the species.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 2:33:32 GMT -5
The character of the grizzly has been greatly affected by humans. The grizzly of the old pioneer days was a more predatory and aggressive beast. Grizzly Years by Doug peacock. The Bitter Creek Grizzly was the only bear I knew of in Yellowstone that regularly killed moose and bison. He attacked younger animals - ambushed them from nearby timber, then dragged them back into the trees, sometimes covering the carcasses with dirt and sticks. I had seen this too many times to believe that these animals had all conveniently died during the winter. His was not the usual pattern of predation for grizzlies. In 1977, when I first crossed paths with the Bitter Creek Griz, a biologist had found another grizzly who had passed up many carcasses for live elk: The bear liked to kill what he ate. A few bears learn to kill healthy adult elk during all seasons, and cow-struck bulls during the rut were especially stupid and approachable. Yellowstone grizzlies also prey on elk calves, as they do caribou calves in Alaska, and moose calves in both places. Adult moose were generally a match for a grizzly except when snows were deep and lightly crusted: grizzlies can walk lightly over a thin crust, distributing their weight evenly on their plantigrade feet, and they glide over the top of deep drifts in which moose wallow. I thought that grizzly predation was not as common here as it had been a decade or more ago. The predatory segment of the population had probably been killed off selectively, and continues to be culled as they were born into it, because predatory bears are bolder and more visible. The Bitter Creek Griz was a holdover from the days when bears could afford to be bold and aggressive. Which served, as it always had, an important ecological function vital to survival of the species. Interesting enough I never knew bears used ambush techniques.
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Post by brobear on Dec 8, 2018 7:19:30 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/science/gps-study-tracks-grizzlies-as-they-follow-hunters GPS study tracks grizzlies as they follow hunters. This GPS system is a real bear. Eight Montana grizzly bears have been outfitted with GPS trackers in an ongoing study that could bring some unnerving news to hunters. The study is aimed at bolstering the theory that grizzlies, which can be as stealthy as they are ferocious, stalk hunters from as close as the length of a football field in order to steal their prey. Already, data has shown at least one grizzly following oblivious elk hunters almost from the moment they left the parking lot, according to the Billings Gazette. Scientists believe the bear may have been following the humans in hopes of getting to a fallen elk before they did. "Bears opportunistically scavenge carcasses throughout the active season and commonly usurp kills of other predators, such as cougars and, since their reintroduction in 1995, gray wolves,” stated a report last year by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. “Remains left by hunters also provide grizzly bears with meat, and bears are attracted to areas outside of national parks when these remains become available during the fall.” The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, part of the U.S. Geological Survey, started the project over the summer, by tagging the grizzlies in the Grand Teton National Park. Next, the study team asked elk hunters to voluntarily carry some 100 GPS units that track their routes. In the most clearly detailed example, a group of hunters turned on their GPS devices moments after leaving a parking area at around 6 a.m. When scientists analyzed their movements later and contrasted them with those of a nearby grizzly, it became clear the bear was tailing them. The bruin stayed downwind of the hunters, at one point coming within 100 yards of them as they moved around a lake. At around noon, the bear bedded down for a nap, but easily picked up the hunters’ trail again when it awoke, according to the report. Grizzly bears’ have a sense of smell seven times greater than that of a bloodhound, and 100 times that of a human by some estimates. Grizzlies also possess a Jacobson’s organ in the roof of their mouth that can detect heavier moisture-borne odors. Scientists tracked the bear as it appeared to smell an elk carcass from 4 miles away, follow the scent and even wound up swimming across the lake to get to it, according to the report. They also observed that the bear made some evasive maneuvers, possibly to avoid an untagged grizzly competing for the same meat. “The temporary movements away from the carcass could be indicative of this particular bear being ‘pushed off’ the carcass by a more dominant bear,” said Frank van Manen, of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team based in Bozeman. Grizzlies have been known to steal the prey of hunters and fishermen alike. Animals such as elk may travel for miles after being wounded, leaving hunters the task of tracking them even as bears may be doing the same. So attuned to the movements of hunters are the bears that scientists believe they may even listen for the sound of gunshots, knowing that they signal a meal to be scavenged. Grizzlies are known scavengers, and officials noted there have been cases of the mighty bruins attacking hunters as they dressed elk in the field. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks now requires successful bison hunters outside of Yellowstone National Park to move carcasses and gut piles 200 yards away from homes, roads and trails to lessen the chances of human-bear interactions, according to the Gazette.
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Post by brobear on Dec 18, 2018 13:21:58 GMT -5
"What happened when a beaver and a bear ran into each other? They looked at each other, 20 feet between them, both frozen for a second. The bear then dashed and jumped to mid air and swung his paw, smashing the beaver deep into the mud flat. A high-pitch loud scream penetrated the silence of this remote beach next to an ancient spruce forest in Alaska. Blood. The sound of death. My jaw dropped. I thought that’s the end of action. Then out of nowhere, at least 10 bears instantly emerged from within a mile like telepathy, walking out from the forest, or getting closer from the beach, all smelling the blood, including the biggest bear, probably the “king” of the area. His stance was menacing, and he came with his new mate right next to him. I guess he wanted to impress the queen, so he started to charge at this bear with the beaver (which means also towards my direction, at full speed, which was faster that Usain Bolt), while the other bears followed him. Seemed like a deadly fight was imminent. The bear with beaver looked at the beaver under his claws, then looked at the incoming “king” from afar, then to the beaver again. I was expecting a full on collision with both of them on hind legs fighting. In the very last moment, when the king was sprinting to within 30 feet, this bear made a quick decision. He grabbed the beaver and ran for his life, constantly looking over his shoulder to see if the king had caught up with him, swinging the body of the beaver up and down while running. We held our ground and didn't move, while these bears ran among us, at times circling us. So close I could feel the ground shaking like an earthquake." -- Tin Man Lee/@tinmanlee (IG). www.facebook.com/TheAlaskaLife/?__tn__=kCH-R&eid=ARAScA4NvFZTmgHGxnnWr2sIqtN4Y4hfdubifmhhogPaO9HzaXX5rJPo9_68ehMnbrMPS2BpLrFV3BL-&hc_ref=ARQr2ubFxejz49OOV-549vmmQvVG3Im1US_HkYLX-VPsiGWCCXJG0K3akj9m4yK5BYE&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARDW0gYv94KmVCREzk9z1MSeam2kzlNPhSACMNqyTDPvrSVwUqGNUqicTPJAM1ke49lJOnKcWW6q4vcm4RkFlyySgTZHu0z0MQD3igHMImGRLKoG8pW-33JQc9VDzh0HRnR6FROk0ZIxo6xDux-In4jDiRblh7dBZfZBe5nt2jROP9I8kVy-pmRoxbQsifETRchQ7FGDOc5YYGOD4FkZO_lNi-RNK9a-SoqQyYl33MruGGHPOSeLf86-fN4yP1qjzb1F6tCXJkYi7JLYO9P5n0Kof2SFAXonVWKiqsB8-4NPPoCrNxgDcd4v56QYWPcQJB65pJAsbTHbccPxLo1VoEQs-yrrUEqNtP3byx5md0AcFHrsxuq3j5VJ
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 18, 2018 17:13:38 GMT -5
Poor beaver.
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Post by brobear on Dec 20, 2018 6:36:36 GMT -5
The Grizzly is a thug and a bully, a mauler and a brawler - and apparently a drinker. ( Boss of the Woods ). shaggygod.proboards.com/ News from earlier in the week: A family of bears is suspected of having broken into a cabin in northern Norway and polished off over a hundred cans of beer. "They had a hell of a party in there," cabin owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK. "The cabin has the stench of a right old piss up, trash, and bears." The bear, and three cubs, are reported to have forced their way into the cabin by ripping a wall off. "The entire cabin was destroyed," Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no daily. Nilsen told of how his mother and grandmother were the first to discover the carnage left by the beer-thirsty bears, when they arrived at the cabin in Jarfjord in Finnmarken only to find the place turned over. "The beds and all kitchen appliances, stove, oven and cupboards and shelves were all smashed to pieces," he said. And furthermore the bears had finished off all the food and drink in the house - including all the marshmallows, chocolate spread, honey and over 100 cans of beer. Nilsen explained that excrement on the outside of the cabin left him in no doubt that it was a family of bears which had taken over his cabin for night of feasting and drunken revelry. "You can see footprints on the windows," he said. Borthen Nilsen expressed concern that the bears may return to scene of their crime at some point in the future. "The mother has taken her young there, thus there is no guarantee that it won't happen to other cabins, or to our hut again," he said. www.thelocal.no/page/view/bears-break-in-to-norway-cabin-drink-beer
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