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USF&WS Abandons Yellowstone Grizzlies 
© 1996, Carl Core/RavenImages Bad News for Yellowstone's Grizzly Bears "Federal wildlife managers plan to lift protections for Yellowstone's iconic grizzly bear population, but conservation groups and scientists oppose the move, citing evidence that the bears cannot survive without Endangered Species Act safeguards. The announcement that Yellowstone grizzly bears will be removed from the list of endangered species has been expected since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed delisting the bears in November 2005. Since then, the agency has been flooded with comments from the public stating that the move is premature. Yellowstone grizzly bears face a troubling future because of global warming. Yellowstone grizzlies depend on the seeds produced by the whitebark pine tree. Global warming is causing beetles to kill this key grizzly food source at alarming rates." Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Off The Endangered List The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears from its status as "threatened" on the U.S. list of threatened and endangered species. Four other grizzly populations in the lower 48 states have not yet recovered and will continue to be protected as threatened species under the Act. Final Delisting - Recovered PDF |
New Bush Plan to Gut Endangered Species Act Key Wildlife Protections Weakened by a Series of Administrative Redefinitions By: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Published: Mar 27, 2007 at 06:58 The U.S. Interior Department is preparing a wide-ranging set of regulations which substantially weaken the federal Endangered Species Act, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Biological Diversity. "These draft regulations slash the Endangered Species Act from head to toe," said Kieran Suckling, policy director of the Center for Biological Diversity. "They undermine every aspect of law - recovery, listing, preventing extinction, critical habitat, federal oversight and habitat conservation plans - all of it is gutted." The draft regulations would: * Remove recovery of a species or population as a protection standard; * Allow projects to proceed that have been determined to threaten species with extinction; * Permit destruction of all restored habitat within critical habitat areas; * Prevent critical habitat areas from being used to protect against disturbance, pesticides, exotic species, and disease; * Severely limit the listing of new endangered species; and * Empower states to veto endangered species introductions as well as administer virtually all aspects of the Endangered Species Act within their borders. "Kicking responsibility for endangered species protection to the states will make it nearly impossible to restore national oversight when states fail to protect endangered species," stated Southwest PEER Director Daniel R. Patterson. "State biologists will be under enormous political pressure to accommodate development interests while lacking, in many cases, even rudimentary legal protection to defend scientific concerns about species survival." Following the collapse of former U.S. Representative Richard Pombo's efforts to legislatively weaken the Endangered Species Act in 2006, the Bush administration pledged to use administrative rulemaking to accomplish some of the same objectives. "If these regulations had been in place 30 years ago, the bald eagle, grizzly bear, and gray wolf would never have been listed as endangered species and the peregrine falcon, black-footed ferret, and California condor would never have been reintroduced to new states," added Suckling. "This plan makes recovery all but impossible for most endangered species. Simply stated, it is the worst attack on the Endangered Species Act in the past 35 years." "Although states are key conservation partners the reason we have a national act is that leaving species protection to the states was a recipe for extinctions," Patterson concluded. The draft regulations are being circulated for final inter-agency review and are expected to be formally unveiled later this spring. Congress could also proscribe or limit Bush administration proposals through the appropriations process. |
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Digital Video- Grizzly Bears in the Wild Living with Grizzlies- Safety and Avoidance James Musgrove's- The American Grizzly Bear |
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Stephen Colbert vs Grizzly Bear Nathan Zanon uses Raven Images bear footage for the Colbert Report Greenscreen Challenge 333k - 00:26:10 - audio |
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Grizzly bear–human conflicts in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem conflicts section of 2005 IGBST Report |
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Yellowstone grizzlies encounter a bull bison Obsidian and her yearlings 00:46 - 4.5 MB digital video clip |
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Yellowstone grizzly hunting elk 01:15 - 6.5 MB digital video clip |
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Consumption of Earthworms by Yellowstone Grizzly Bears David J. Mattson, Marilynn G. French, Steven P. French Complete with some rare video of Yellowstone grizzlies feeding on earthworms. |
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Brown Bear Habituation to People: Safety, Risks, and Benefits Stephen Herrero, Tom Smith, Terry D. DeBruyn, Kerry Gunther, and Colleen A. Matt A paper on the current thinking about the habituation of brown/grizzly bears. |
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Grizzly Bear Encounter at Shoshone Lake Dave Landreth Kicking off our essay section, Dave Landreth describes his encounter with a grizzly bear at Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone. It is likely that bear spray proved effective in this case. "In short, I had a run-in with a really pissed-off Griz that lasted, probably, for less than a minute, one of the most intense minutes of my life." |
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Bear Pepper Spray: Research and Information Tom S. Smith (USGS) An excellent piece on all aspects of oleoresin capsicum spray as a bear deterrent. |
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One Big Mother... and her yearling cub 1:26-5MB digital video clip of a large female brown bear and her cub in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. |
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Bear-Human Conflict in Alaska, 1900-2002 For the past several years Tom Smith and Steve Herrero have worked to construct a database of Alaska bear-human encounters spanning the 20th century. Currently, the database contains 500 incidents with 85 variables of information per incident, totaling over 17,000 individual data entries. The purpose of this research has been to promote bear conservation and human safety through minimizing conflict. |
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1:02-3,7MB digital video clip of a male grizzly bear following a scent in the Shoshone National Forest. |
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Protecting Your Camp from Bears: Electric Fencing Tom S. Smith (USGS) Protect yourself with electricity in an area with a high density of bears, like coastal Alaska. |
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1:03-3.7MB digital video clip of a grizzly bear foraging the sagebrush in the Shoshone National Forest. |
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Grizzly bear–human conflicts in the GYE (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem), 1992–2000 IGBST (Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team) report including: human-caused grizzly bear mortality, and human injury due to grizzly bear attack. Bear–human conflicts by season, month and location. Property damage/anthropogenic foods, livestock depredations, gardens/orchards, beehives. Management recommendations. |
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1:02-3.7MB digital video clip of a grizzly bear foraging a slope- Yellowstone National Park. |
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Grizzly Bears (yearlings) in Shoshone National Forest 27 second-1.6MB digital video clip of two yearling grizzly bears on their own. |
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Grizzly Bear Mortality in the GYE (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem), 1989-2005 All the grizzly bear mortality reports from the IGBST (Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team) Annual Reports in a single document. I've included images of some of the grizzly bears in the reports. |
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Digital video clip (4.45 megs) of a mother brown bear and cub eating salmon eggs in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. |
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