Just in time for 307 day, the first grizzly of the year was spotted in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday. The 350-pound bear was, not surprisingly, eating at the time.
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Western officials are making another attempt to get Wyoming’s grizzly bears removed from the endangered species list, an advocate for delisting said, but the Humane Society wants the bears to remain federally protected.
Greybull native Barry Olson told Cowboy State Daily he holds no animosity toward the grizzly bear which severely mauled him last month. Olson said the encounter was his fault and the grizzly should be left alone.
An hiker from Buffalo, New York, was “severely mauled” by a grizzly bear on Monday near Meeteetse, Wyoming and is hospitalized in Billings. This is the second attack in the area in the last week.
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A Montana man who was reported missing after hiking with a friend earlier this week was killed by a grizzly bear north of Yellowstone National Park, officials announced Friday.
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A four-year-old female grizzly bear was killed on Saturday by Grand Teton National Park officials after becoming highly conditioned to food rewards, officials announced this week.
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A sow grizzly is dead after charging two hunters in the Caribou Targhee National Forest.
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Two people were injured late Tuesday by a grizzly bear in southwestern Montana, officials announced this week.
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A West Yellowstone man was ultimately found to be at fault for causing the fatal grizzly attack that killed him earlier this year.
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This is the farthest south grizzly bears have been verified since well before recovery efforts began in the 1970s
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On Saturday, a pilot supporting park wildlife studies saw a grizzly from the air. The pilot saw the bear interact with wolves at a carcass in the northern part of the park.
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney recently reintroduced a bill to Congress that would delist grizzly bears from being considered as threatened or endangered wildlife.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured 26 grizzly bears and euthanized 18 of them throughout 2020.
At 34, the male grizzly was one of four that Wyoming Game and Fish biologists have found to live more than three decades. Usually, females tend to live longer.
Although it may not be as pivotal as a Covid-19 vaccine, if you were wondering when facial recognition software for grizzly bears might be developed, you’re in luck.
For the second day in a row, the grizzly bear is fighting off annoying neighbors who are trying to mooch his bull elk.
The captures are part of ongoing efforts to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating two conflicts regarding grizzly bears and archery hunters.
Instead of pushing his friend down in front of the grizzly bear, an Idaho man followed Park Service advice and helped him.
Grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park areas have recovered and should be removed from the endangered species list, U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi said this week.
Astonishingly, no tourists were mauled on Monday when famed grizzly 399’s four cubs stopped traffic in Grand Teton National Park to play with traffic cones.
In a pretty intense video, one group of hikers warned another group of hikers about a charging grizzly on the same trail.
A scientific study released earlier this week says humans can out-eat grizzly bears in hot dog-eating contests.
Grizzly bear attack victim is not pleased that Montana Fish and Game officials haven’t killed the offending grizzly bear yet.
The guide was out on a safari in Yellowstone where she filmed what she called “the most epic bear-wolf interaction [she’s] ever seen.”
The National Park Service is recommending not “pushing your slower friends down” if a bear is attacking.
A grizzly bear was euthanized after killing a cow on private land in Montana last week.
In a weird twist for 2020, there’s video footage of grizzly bears not mauling people.
A Montana man who was attacked by a grizzly had his wife video his exposed bones immediately after the attack in case he didn’t survive.
A Choteau, Montana man was attacked by a grizzly bear after successfully searching and finding the grizzly bear.
No word if the mountain goat survived. The hiker, for some reason, chose not to run after the grizzly to get the footage.
A hiker on Tuesday surprised a grizzly bear south of Cody. The grizzly bear then surprised the hiker.
The trail runner not only collided into the grizzly, she then bounced off the bear and both of them went tumbling down the trail together.
A grizzly bear which was put down earlier this year has been donated to Cody’s Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
The National Park Service said the grizzly was displaying natural protective behavior for its cub and will not be destroyed.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced Wednesday that as part of an ongoing effort to monitor grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, it would conduct capture operations in the northwest portion of the state over the next few months.
A grizzly was bear captured and euthanized in Wapiti earlier this week after repeatedly breaking into a chicken coop.
A Cody man survived a grizzly bear attack after the bear accidentally bit-down on his can of bear spray.
A Cody man suffered a “severe” neck injury Friday morning after getting attacked by a grizzly bear in the East Painter Creek area of Park County.
As Wyoming’s grizzly bear population continues to grow, the animals are increasingly moving into situations that put them in conflict with humans, according to a state Game and Fish Department official.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest’s announcement of its decision to reauthorize cattle grazing in the Upper Green River region 30 miles north of Pinedale was met with the predictable hysteria of anti-grazing activists who claim the plan “institutionalizes overgrazing” and “negligent livestock management” on national forest lands. These activists are pushing to rid public lands of livestock and cite conflicts between grizzly bears and cattle in the Upper Green to justify their position. It’s no matter that the truth undermines their outrageous claims.
With more than 80 percent of the American public residing in urban areas, I understand the importance of connecting people to nature. But rather than have the American public remain ignorant about the natural world and its wild animals, we need to work to educate the public of the reality of human-wildlife conflicts so that we can seek to minimize these conflicts.
A French composer on a trip to Canada’s Northwest Territories to record the sounds of nature was attacked in his tent in the middle of the night and killed by a grizzly bear earlier this month. Such an unprovoked attack is rare, according to wildlife officials, although large carnivore attacks on humans are on the increase worldwide. Grizzly bear attacks on humans in Wyoming are part of that worldwide trend.
Last week the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard testimony about the possibility of providing a financial incentive for the development of non-lethal, innovative technologies that reduce conflict between human and wildlife predators.
The grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem achieved biological recovery goals nearly two decades ago, but the animals remain under federal protection – after more than 40 years of such protection.
It’s all over for this year. Check out our bitesized rundown of what passed and what failed in the 65th Wyoming Legislature’s General Session. Stay tuned this weekend for more analysis on the session highs and lows with our Robert Geha.
A coalition of environmental groups plans to sue the state over a new law giving it the authority to conduct grizzly bear hunts.
Here is the status of some bills making their way through the Legislature’s general session:
Here is a look at the status of some of the bills being considered by Wyoming’s Legislature during its general session:
A bill that would authorize the state Department of Game and Fish to set a grizzly hunting season cleared a House committee Wednesday.
