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Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos)
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Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos)
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TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick.
The truth is that no one knows how many grizzlies are scattered through the rugged boondocks they call home on this side of the Canadian line, and it is extremely difficult and expensive to try to find out. Population totals are fashioned from collected hair samples, which provide DNA, plus smaller numbers of actual sightings subjected to large amounts of statistical massage. Grizzlies may live thirty years or more, crisscrossing home ranges that typically encompass several hundred square miles and occasionally more than a thousand. Even the relative homebodies among them make lengthy forays as subadults dispersing from their mothers' domains. They also make strong shifts in altitude from one season to the next, rambling between thickly forested valley floors and sun-swept tundra meadows just off the peaks. And they may move to entirely new tracts as drought, wildfires, cyclical irruptions of insects, plant disease epidemics, and normal forest succession alter the habitat mix.
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick.
It has been a long time since Americas were able to homestead in vast, untamed tracts of land out West. Grizzlies no longer have that luxury either. Most parks and designated wilderness are too small to hold many such giants. Other preserves are too top-heavy; that is, they protect grand expanses of alpine scenery but end down where more fertile habitats start. Meanwhile - endangered species regulations notwithstanding - industry, real estate and mass recreation continue to extend their reach into previously remote countrysides. What this means is that the bears have little choice but to share landscapes with us to some extent even in the best of wild-food years. Competition is inevitable and conflicts unavoidable. The question is whether they can be kept to tolerable levels. Everyone always says that the long-term solution to complex issues lies in better education. Hunt and Manley were just taking the philosophy a step farther, tutoring animals that, like us, possess a lively intelligence and inquisitive nature along with the potential for monstrous behavior.
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick.
The North Fork is a National Wild & Scenic River, and the valley that holds it is long, heavily forested, and remote. Just across the border in southeasternmost British Columbia, the upper North Fork appears to hold the thickest concentration of grizzlies yet recorded in Canada's interior. The U.S. side may harbor more grizz per square mile than anyplace else in the Lower 48. Population density figures for this species vary dramatically from one range to the next. To me, this reinforces the notion that there is no such thing as a standard grizzly, for whenever you generalize about the animal's favorite kind of country or how often they encounter each other, you are bound to be way off for many a bear. Some tundra stretches of Alaska's North Slope and the Canadian Arctic support just one grizzly for every several hundred square miles. Yet along coastal terrain veined with streams that host a succession of salmon runs through summer and fall, biologists have recorded an average of between one and two grizzlies for each square mile. This is why even though it is still true that the great majority of occupied grizzly range lies in the continent's interior, at least half the grizzlies alive today are within about 100 miles of the Pacific. Hotspots such as Kodiak Island, the Alaska Peninsula, and Admiralty Island in the southeastern part of the forty-ninth state are the big-bear equivalents of New Delhi or teeming Hong Kong.
TRUE GRIZZ by Douglas H. Chadwick.
Asked to name America's premier grizz country outside of Alaska, many Americans would say Yellowstone. The area has about one silvertip for every twenty to forty square miles. Key sections of the North Fork host one for every five to ten square miles. The valley also supports a robust cougar population, and it was here that natural recolonization of the western United States by wolves got under way, beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They share the terrain with lynx, bobcat, marten, fisher, wolverine, river otter, badger, mink, various weasels, coyote, red fox, and black bear. As ecologist John Weaver pointed out in a recent report, THe Transboundary Flathead, what emerges is a carnivore community "unmatched in North America for its variety, completeness, use of valley bottomlands, and density of species which are rare elsewhere." 
Credits to John E.Marriot.
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I put here one photo shortly. Dimensions can be and probably are not perfect, this is like fast sketch, but what should be quite right is how tall these animals are. I wrote earlier about it, that something like this would be nice to see made by an expert. But for instance size difference between biggest bears and gorilla might be more understandable with this kind of comparison.
Kodiak here is 10 feet, other one is brown bear scaled to 9 feet, then tiger to 8 feet and gorilla, as those usually are, about 6 feet. I think, that biggest gorilla ever has been 6 feet 6 inches. But what do you guys think, who see this. I will take photo off soon, so badly done 
Credits to GP Walsh Photography & Photo Tours.
Alaskan Brown Bear Cub eating a Dog Shark and his brother eating a salmon. The Sow was watching the water for the next possible catch coming her way.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Katmai Wilderness Lodge.
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Credits to Max Waugh.
The bears in my cover photo (from BC a couple years ago), were engaged in a bit of play-fighting... but in Alaska, we saw a true brawl. Even though it was short-lived, this was a serious showdown between a subadult brown bear and a sow. The subadult approached a cache the female was guarding along with her two cubs, and she was not ready to share. In the background, a second subadult bear watches the fight... it would soon take advantage of the distraction and sneak in to grab a piece of meat (we think a washed-up fish) from the cache.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Max Waugh.
I've uploaded images from my short scouting trip to Lake Clark National Park to my photo archive. It's mainly all about bears. Though it was late in the season and the weather wasn't great, there were still plenty of close encounters and fun photo ops to be had. This sow and her yearling cub were a familiar subject by the end of the trip. Here they come together in a rare playful moment while mom searching for salmon lingering at the end of the spawning run in the ocean.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Max Waugh.
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem seemed pretty quiet on the bear front this past week, so I felt fortunate that I got my fill of bear action the previous week in Alaska. Here, a brown bear runs across the ocean shallows hoping to catch one of the few remaining salmon in the area.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to BearPhoto.
Spring Awakening! As winter slowly loosens its grip, the giants of the forest emerge from their winter hibernation, keen to feed amongst the snowy landscape. As well as the Brown Bears sporting their pristine ‘Winter fur’, elusive Wolverine visit the area regularly and move through the snow with ease. Participants can expect a number of stunning boreal forest bird species to be present in the area, including Black and Greater-Spotted Woodpecker, Bullfinch and Siberian Jay. Red squirrels are also regularly present in the area.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Here, once again an example, that when meeting a bear, staying calm and remembering instructions can make the difference. Last monday (22.10.2018) a finnish 12 years old girl met a bear on the way home from school. She was left by school bus to place, from where she then walks a little bit under 1 km to home. When walking home she suddenly noticed a bear nearby. She lied down to ground in fetal position and put her hands to cover her neck. Bear came to her, sniffed and then pushed her a little bit to her back. After some minutes bear went away.
Girl was totally unharmed, but naturally somewhat upset. Still her father tells, that overall girl seems to have taken situation quite good. Officials and wildlife experts visited place also after they were informed about what had happened. This link is in finnish, so most here don´t understand too much and google translator is in big trouble with finnish language, but just that you can see, that this really happened :) https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/dbab1a7...6_u0.shtml Ps. place is 25 km west from city of Jyväskylä. 
Watch this Terrifying Video of a Grizzly Charging a BC Man and his Dog
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8xjy85/watch-this-terrifying-video-of-a-grizzly-charging-a-bc-man-and-his-dog?fbclid=IwAR2A9FNvh8B3kxAum2DcP4RyBjlfNAD7ZzD9nn9Osr3DPow2J0qi-aVWMZo&utm_campaign=global&utm_source=vicefbca (10-26-2018, 10:19 PM)Pckts Wrote: Watch this Terrifying Video of a Grizzly Charging a BC Man and his DogI wonder if that guy had really any real understanding about bears. Charging there like that to bear with cubs..... sometimes when there is no instant danger it is good idea to call to officials and experts. At least in my country they come immediately to place where something like this is going on. Safer to people and animals to let the experts handle this kind of situations. |
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