Pros And Cons Of Moving The Grizzly Bear

However, over 98 percent of grizzly bears have been eliminated to the number around 800 to 1,000 in the Lower 48 states. 01/06/2016 The Brewing Battle Over Grizzly Delisting and Trophy Hunting in the Yellowstone Ecosystem TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-pacelle/the-brewing-battle-over-g_b_8923316.html) As such, it was hard to argue that grizzlies are thriving. Since European colonization, they have lost half of their continental habitat, and even in BC around a third of populations have either die out or are currently endangered. (Anna Taylor) Overkill - trophy hunting slams BC's Grizzly bears 7th February 2014 Ecologist /Resurgence Trust (http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2271852/overkill_trophy_hunting_slams_bcs_grizzly_bears.html) Another point is that they have startling low reproductive rate among the terrestrial mammals. It takes ten years for a female grizzly to replace herself in the population, and she will stop breeding in her mid-to late 20s. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Grizzly (sponsor)/Biology & Behavior (title) (http://westernwildlife.org/grizzly-bear-outreach-project/biology-behavior/) A female can give birth to a maximum of 10 cubs over her lifetime, and half of the cubs will die within a year.(Ibid) What is more, grizzly bears play an important role in forest ecosystem as seed dispersers and nutrient providers. Generally they benefit the surroundings by transporting berry seed to enable them to geminate, or pile up their fresh manure as fertilizer. While they searching for tree roots or ground squirrels, they increased the amount of nitrogen through soil disturbance. (Ibid) As a predator, grizzlies can control prey population. They hunt vegetarian so that regional density of plants would not decline in large quantities. Grizzly bears can be said as a keystone species in their

Funny thing about camping in Yosemite for years with my family. Every time we invited a family to camp with us, they all responded while sitting around the camp fire, with the same statement. "There are no bears in Yosemite"! Some how in their own minds they seemed to think their statement would keep them away. Or they wanted reassurance from us there weren't any. We have had several encounters with them in our camp, but the Rangers have mostly contained them. Trouble is, what Yosemite are you talking about? Yosemite Valley where most of the camping is, or Yosemite National Park.

The Grizzly Bear is a Keystone species. A keystone species is the center block, of which an ecosystem largely relies on. The Grizzly Bear lives in places such as alpine slopes, avalanche shoots and lower elevation wetlands.

Today, Louisiana has made extraordinary rescues with species that were once considered threatened or endangered. Due to safe planning and the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service projected to remove the Louisiana Black Bear from the list of threatened species. In May 2015, approximately 350 black bears to 600 black bears existed in Northern Louisiana in which $900,000 was invested to restore its population. Severe habitat loss of the black bear is what initially led to the decline in the population. In 1992, the Louisiana Black Bear was placed on the list of endangered and threatened species and in May 2015, they were officially removed (Wildlife Division - Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,

In 1997, while bow hunting in the Ocala National Forest. I saw two large male bears eating grubs and one of them caught and begun to eat a Cotton Tail rabbit. They were approximately ½ mile from each other. It seemed like the very second that the bear with the rabbit tore it apart, I saw the other bear lift his nose to the air and was at a full run and was to the other bear within a minute. The first bear was bigger, but the second bear seemed to be hungrier and quickly took the remains of the rabbit away and out of sight. Thinking that it was a waste of time to remain in the area I returned to my jeep to head back to camp and get some lunch for myself. Upon reaching the logging road that lead to my jeep, I found large bear prints within my

Bear hunting is an extremely dangerous activity for one to partake in. There are many precautions one must take in order to successfully kill a bear. Although bears are typically calm creatures they can become extremely aggressive and dangerous if threatened. Therefore, one must be aware of their surroundings at all times and ready for any encounter. Normally bears are baited using some kind of container cut open with fruit and other strong smelling foods to draw the bears in. Though dangerous bear hunting does also provide a considerable amount of food for a family. Those you hunt typically do so in order to obtain the meat from the animal. A typical black bear weighs about 240 pounds on average. Though not all of that weight is eatable much of it

Transition: Although the Grizzlies population is growing this means that after the federal government takes the bears off of the endangered list in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming then these states will become responsible for monitoring the population

The grizzly sheds the thick part of their coat during the summer. The coat also protects the grizzly bear from insects or any types of bugs. The grizzly bears have a very large home range that they will roam through. The grizzly bear also spend hours of the day walking around, but that is common for grizzly bears. The wear in the temperate rainforest is sunny and sometimes rainy. When the grizzly bear needs to move quickly through their habitat it can be done so at a speed of 30 miles per hour. The mating season for grizzly bears start in mid-May it continues until the middle of July. Grizzly bears can live in the wild up to 30years. They can also die at the age of 25. Grizzly bears can be found in woodlands, forests, alpine meadows and prairies. They prefer to be around streams or rivers. Grizzly bears are mainly solitary, except for mothers and their cubs. Grizzly are known to meet up at a river or a stream. Grizzly bears are also very strong swimmers. Grizzly bears use sound, movement, and smells to communicate with each other. Grizzly bears happen to groan and moan to get each others attention. Grizzly bears also rub their bodies on trees so they scratch their self. Throughout the summer grizzlies build up fat by eating as much

The Spirit Bear, or actually called the Kermode bear, lives in the Great Bear Rainforest in the Northwest area of the Canadian province British Columbia. Half way up the coast is where they live. “Scientifically, the white ones, along with their closest black relatives, belong to a subspecies of black bear.”(Smithsonian) The big white bear is probably around 300 lbs. It is cold where they live, and their fur definitely helps them keep warm. They hunt for things like salmon, and just eats it up. Right now, the some estimates say there are only around 100 of the specie left. They are very rare and definitely one of the rarest type of

Tourists appear in Yellowstone National Park to see the world’s geysers and to observe the wildlife. Most people go to observe the animals and take pictures while they are there, but what they do not know is that it can be threatening. While people are taking pictures they do not know the proper precautions about being close to them. People do not know how the bears will react based upon spotting you. Although, there would be less attacks, bears should not be removed because it is there natural habitat, people are desensitizing bears, and bears attacking have been a defensive act.

The Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) is a subspecies of the American black bear (Ursus americanus). The Louisiana black bear was once found roaming all over Louisiana and parts of Arkansas, Texas, and Mississippi. However, during the 18th and 19th century, bear hunting became popular and large amounts of forest areas disappeared due to the demand for wood and agricultural land. By the 1950's, the Louisiana black bear's population was down to eighty to one hundred twenty. In efforts, to save the species the Director of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries temporarily closed hunting season for the Louisiana black bear. Despite the noticeable decline of the bears' population, illegal harvesting and deforestation took place until the

Black bear attacks occurred the most, however, in the Vancouver area with 5 attacks in the past 16 years. The unit is not very large, but it is highly populated by human with not so many bears and so it is interesting to see such results from the data. The grizzlies had the most number of attacks in the 16 years in the Rocky and Central Purcells Unit of BC with a count of 4 each. Both areas are relatively less populated by humans with a good density of bears. This result shows that many of the black bear attacks occur more in human populated areas compared to grizzly bears which may be true because majority of the human population inhabit the southern regions of BC. Grizzlies, inhabit areas further up north while the black bears are found throughout BC, but most common in coastal and southern regions. Herrero and Higgins paper in 1999 also found similar findings where grizzly bears inflicted injuries in backcountry areas whereas black bears attacked in the more front-country closer to

It was a Kermode bear. You aren’t allowed to hunt them, just allowed to see. 200 miles northwest of Orr, Minnesota a black, white bear was also found. When they found the bear genetics were never studied. To this day they still haven’t studied the black, white bear’s genetics. Then another Kermode bear was found in 2004 300 miles northwest of Beausejour near Cedar Lake, Manitoba. This cub was named Maskwa, also it also carried the same genetics that black, white bears have to this day.

In North America, the grizzly bear is a keystone species - not as a predator but as ecosystem engineers. They transfer nutrients from the oceanic ecosystem to the forest ecosystem. The first stage of the transfer

Bear is a true carnivore, but if not prevented the black bear could be a huge problem to humans.