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Featured Link: REI -- Reasons for Using Bear-Resistant Food Containers (much good and interesting information)

New Link: Ursus Images -- I was a guest of Barry of Ursus Images on June 2, 2002.  We didn't see any grizzly bears during my visit but did see several nice black bears.  There is a very small population of grizzly bears in the area we visited in south central British Columbia, just across the U.S. border. There have also been recent reports of grizzlies south of the border in that area. Ursus Images has constructed a few hair snare sites and is cooperating with others by collecting samples for DNA analysis to determine the makeup of the grizzly population in the area. You can learn more by visiting their website. The photo below is of a female black bear and one of her three cubs we saw.

I believe Barry is doing his best to conduct a safe operation and have as little impact as possible on the bears. Is it possible to guide people into the area and not negatively impact the bears? I don't know, but Barry has been watching grizzlies in the area for a number of years. The nature of the business--guiding clients to see bears--requires carrying a firearm, of which I am not a proponent. I hope bear pepper spray will always be the first choice in case of a close encounter.

Be sure to check out their link to the Rossland Bear Aware Program--a program more communities need.

Sites I Frequently Visit

Wind River Bear Institute -- Home of the Karellian Bear Dogs. Visit the site to learn how Carrie Hunt and her amazing dogs are keeping grizzlies and black bears alive.  They need our help.   If you are looking for a good cause that is  helping bears, this is one.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Bear Identification Program -- This is a great website to test your ability to distinguish a black bear from a grizzly bear.  However, allowing bear hunters to take a test on a website (as is being proposed as of November 2001) before getting a license to hunt black bears is not appropriate. Black bear hunters should be required to pass a legitamate Bear Identification Test to show they can distinguish between a grizzly bear and a black bear. It is not always easy to tell the difference.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has been strongly "encouraged" by the Great Bear Foundation, Sierra Club Grizzly Bear Ecosystems Project, and others to take action to stop black bear hunters from killing grizzly bears.

What is really needed is a required training/certification program before a license to hunt black bears can be obtained. If grizzly bears continue to be killed by black bear hunters, look for stronger calls to eliminate black bear hunting in and around grizzly bear recovery areas and litigation to stop the illegal killing of grizzlies by black bear hunters.

Griztrax.net and Carnivora - Grizzly Bear Section-- Great site with lots of grizzly and environmental information, and recent news

Sierra Club Grizzly Bear Ecosystems Project -- The leaders in grizzly conservation in the lower 48

Craighead Environmental Research Institute -- Science on the Web

Ralph Maughan's Wildlife Reports -- One of the most comprehensive wolf sites on the web and lots more 

Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project -- Much good information on grizzly issues and research  in Alberta 

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) This approach is what's needed. Check it out.

Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) -- Can bureaucracy bring back the grizzly?

Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team -- Yellowstone Grizzly  Investigations  for 1995-1999 available Online

Conservation Organizations

Great Bear Foundation -- Working to protect the bears of the world

Alliance for the Wild Rockies -- A plan for recovery of grizzlies in the Bitterroots the way it should be


Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Buffalo Field Campaign -- Working to protect the Yellowstone Bison

Predator Conservation Alliance -- Working to protect endangered  predators, large and small

Montana Wilderness Association

Enos Mills Cabin-Museum & Gallery -- A great site for the "Father of Rocky Mountain National Park"

The Colorado Grizzly Project -- May no longer be an active organization but site has some information

Bears.org -- Some information about the eight species of bears     

Government Agencies and Others

Walkin Jim Stoltz -- Thousands of miles of wilderness walking and great music

The Total Yellowstone Page -- A commercial site with lots of information about our oldest national park

  
USGS Glacier Field Station Research Projects

    Grizzly Bear and Black Bear Ecology

    Greater Glacier Area DNA Study

   Whitebark Pine Communities

USGS Greater Yellowstone Field Station Research Projects

   The Effect of Environmental Variability on Grizzly Bear Habitat Use (May not be active)

   Greater Yellowstone Landscape Ecology Project

   Bison and Brucellosis Research Studies

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks -- Grizzly Bear as a Threatened Species

Washington State University Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Program -- Grizzlies in Captivity

Counter Assault -- Pepper Spray

UDAP -- Pepper Spray

McNeil River State Game Sanctuary, Alaska -- "River of Bears"

Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska -- Brooks Falls

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bitterroot EIS -- With information for Bitterroots, Yellowstone and more

Wyoming Game and Fish Department -- Hunters urged to carry bear repellent spray in NW Wyoming

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