Tag: grizzly bears

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reaffirmed its decision to consider the grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem a distinct population segment. The GYE grizzlies...

For brown bear cubs, it pays to be a mama’s boy or girl. Researchers recently found that brown bear (Ursus arctos) cubs in south-central Sweden stay with their mothers longer...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has announced his support of plans to reintroduce grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) to North Cascades National Park and the surrounding North Cascades ecosystem. Returning grizzlies...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has developed grizzly bear harvest regulations for the fall of 2018 that are currently open for public comment. The hunting regulations were developed after...

In British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains, where an imperiled population of grizzlies gradually recovers, the timber trade has carved out over 10,000 kilometers of dirt roads — more than twice the...

From monarchs to grizzlies, America’s wildlife is dwindling due to climate change and habitat destruction, conservationists said at a conference this week in Washington, and wildlife corridors are crucial to...

A changing environment in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including a decrease in whitebark pine trees, might be causing some trouble for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), which prefer to eat the...

An increase in train collisions with grizzly bears over the past 20 years in Canadian national parks has pushed researchers to look for possible causes. In a collaborative effort between...

The largest populations of Arctic grizzly bears are sustained by a healthy balanced diet of food sources, according to research. “The idea would be that we could really show that...

Biologists have scrambled up mountains and searched the remote backcountry of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula to provide the first comprehensive estimate of the region’s grizzly bear population. “We’ve been trying to...