Tag Archives: grizzly bears

Plan to kill Old Man Lake griz attracts protests

By demand, here’s the latest on the “Old Man Lake female” grizzly bear. This article appeared in today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . .

Three people are camped beneath the cliffs at Morning Star Lake, in the stone-cold shadow of Medicine Grizzly Peak.

Unlike other Glacier National Park campers, these three are packing rifles, and tranquilizer guns, and a big bear cage. They’re here to catch and kill a grizzly bear, and to carry her cubs off to the zoo — and that has outraged a handful of bear lovers.

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Grizzly sow in Glacier will be killed

This is not strictly North Fork news, but is likely of interest to a lot of folks who follow this site. From Thursday’s online edition of the Missoulian . . .

She’s up in the Nyack Creek wilderness right now, working huckleberry hillsides with her two cubs, but this old grizzly will come back. She always comes back.

That’s the problem. That’s why this time, when she returns, she’ll be killed.

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New griz study to focus on rub trees

Another sure sign of spring: A new bear study.

From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . .

A new and expansive effort to monitor the Northern Continental Divide’s grizzly bear population will capitalize on a creature comfort for bears: the irresistible urge to scratch their backs on trees.

The research project mainly will be aimed at determining whether collecting hair samples from rub trees over three successive years can provide a reliable measure of whether the region’s grizzly population is stable, growing or shrinking.

It will be led by Kate Kendall, the U.S. Geological Survey scientist who spearheaded two previous grizzly bear population studies based on genetic analysis of bear hair.

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Mud season: bears and snowplows

It looks like mud season — er, uh… Spring — is on its way.

According to an article in the Flathead Beacon, “Grizzly and black bears are emerging from their dens in Glacier National Park.” If they are up and foraging for food in the park, we’ll likely be seeing them on the North Fork, too.

Glacier National Park has started its spring plowing activities. The Daily Inter Lake has extensive details on scheduling and restrictions. The Park Service also posted a press release.

Grizzly bears fared well this year

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 Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

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