SEEDS program sponsors field trip to Calgary
...y and a trip to Banff National Park to learn about grizzly bear research. Students participating in the field trip come from around the United States and Puerto Rico, including: Arizona State University; California State University, Fullerton; College of Menominee Nation; College of San Mateo; Florida A...Danger spots identified for threatened grizzly bear
...try and human activity may soon wipe out Alberta's grizzly bear population, but new University of Alberta res...rs are dying at the highest rates, all sites where grizzly habitats overlap areas that humans frequent regularly. Nielsen's paper, published in the journal "Bi...Yellowstone wolves, grizzlies and moose 'dysfunctional' study says
...gical Conservation warns that a proposal to remove grizzly bears and wolves living in the Greater Yellowstone...tone Ecosystem, citing rising population levels of grizzly bears and wolves as evidence of conservation success. However, the authors of the study say that a ...2002 Canon National Parks Science Scholars named by U.S. National Park Service and AAAS
...Ironically, now that she is conducting research on grizzly bears in Canada's Yukon Territory, bear encounters have been rare. "You try not to harass the bears while you're studying them," she said. Maraj is one of eight Ph.D. students who have received scholarships from the Canon National Parks Science Schol...Too many turtles may end up as roadkill
...is perhaps places land turtles...in the company of grizzly bears and gray wolves as fauna for which road networks may be a key limiting factor to population recovery efforts." In areas where buffer zones and large roadless areas are not feasible, turtles could be protected from collisions by building road cr...UCLA study shows water reclamation could become an important source of future water supplies
...xtinct in recent decades." Indeed, the California grizzly bear -- the official state animal -- and the gray wolf have become extinct, and the California condor teeters on the edge of extinction. Rundel cited various ways in which increased development negatively affects the region's plants and animals. For ...... that legal protections are critical to conserving grizzly bears in the contiguous US. "This is direct eviden...tion Biology. To help find the best way to protect grizzly bears, Mattson and Merrill determined factors that correlated with the species' survival since 1850....As people learn to live with grizzly bears and wolves that have recolonized areas aroun...ons at sites in Yellowstone and Scandanavia, where grizzly bears and wolves have only recently returned, and compared them to populations in Alaska, where pred...The hair of the bear: USGS releases grizzly bear numbers in Glacier National Park
...ry results showing that there are an estimated 437 grizzly bears in the northern third portion of the Norther... Continental Divide Ecosystem and an estimated 332 grizzly bears in Glacier National Park itself. Because of statistical variation, the actual numbers of bea...The hair of the bear: DNA fingerprinting allows non-intrusive study of grizzly bears
...pling and DNA fingerprinting techniques to monitor grizzly bear populations in Glacier National Park and surr...ar hair and scats without handling bears. Previous grizzly population studies in forested habitats were often accomplished with the use of radio telemetry, whi...Are reintroduced wolves eating too many baby moose?
... the Yellowstone area and some blame thewolves and grizzly bears that are returning after a 60-year absence. ...at the drop in youngmoose is not due to wolves and grizzly bears. Rather, the researchers suspectthat the number of moose is limited by the abundance of willow......hy of the Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Yellowstone's grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) may seem awesomely powerful t...d little in the pasttwo decades, despite intensive grizzly bear management. Bear mortality isnearly double in years when the whitebark pine crop fails, and th...USGS Advisory: DNA Fingerprinting Allows Non-Intrusive Study Of Grizzly Bears
...other USGS staff areproviding baseline data on the grizzly population in Glacier National Park and,equally im...ted from bear hair and scats (droppings). Previous grizzly populationstudies in forested habitats were often accomplished with the use of radiotelemetry, which...DNA Fingerprinting Allows Non-Intrusive Study Of Grizzly Bears
...ther USGS staff areproviding baseline data on the grizzly population in Glacier National Park and,equally im...ed from bear hair and scats (droppings). Previous grizzly populationstudies in forested habitats were often accomplished with the use of radiotelemetry, which...Wildlife Dying At The Doorsteps Of World's National Parks, Study Says
...ll gray wolf deaths. In Yellowstone, 89 percent of grizzly bear deaths were human-related. Otherareas of the world offered similar statistics: humans contributed to an averageof 61 percent of African wild dog deaths in a variety of game reserves and parksthroughout central and southern Africa; and nearly tw...USGS Cautions Proper Use Of Pepper Spray To Avoid Bear Attacks
...ay ishighly effective as a deterrent in aggressive grizzly and brown bear encounterswhen sprayed directly in a bear's eyes or nose, his pilot study shows that sprayresidues did attract brown bears when used in nonaggressive situations. Brownbear responses to red pepper spray-treated sites in his study range...